While The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer prioritized stopping
the spread of nuclear weapons, he failed to consider Russia, China and North
Korea as threats and maintained the United States shouldn’t build any new
nuclear weapons.
The last time America’s nuclear posture was reviewed was in 2010. In the eight years since the world has
changed dramatically. Russia has emerged
as a serious adversary, China began a massive land grab in the South China Sea
and North Korea has developed and launched test missiles at an ever-increasing
pace.
Mutually assured destruction from nuclear powers terrifies us all. Most of us envision silos with massive
ICBMs. Yes, those still exist but a new
class of smaller nuclear weapons comprise our arsenal.
The proliferation of
precision-guided low-yield nuclear weapons now means that smaller explosives
hitting closer to targets preclude the need for massive nuclear explosions that
would almost certainly, in any use case, kill civilians.
The Washington Times reported today that North Korea stood up U.S.
officials in Singapore who waited for three days to take a meeting that was
intended to set the stage for the now-canceled summit.
The snub was but one part of a “trail of broken promises” and a “strange
lack of judgment” by the hermit kingdom that led to President Trump canceling
the summit today.
Like the old Fram
oil filter commercials of the late 70’s where a car repairman warns, “You
can pay me now or you can pay me later,” President Trump said during his
remarks before signing into law the bill that rolls back the onerous Dodd-Frank
bill, that he had spoken with Defense Secretary James Mattis who assured him
the U.S. military is “ready if necessary” if “foolish or reckless acts” are
taken by North Korea. He held out hope
the summit would get back on track adding, “Nobody should be anxious. We have to get it right.”
“He wrote WHAT?" pic.twitter.com/xLxADFHLYy— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 24, 2018
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