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MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT
Missile Defense, National Security and the Obama Administration
RE: The announcement that the Obama Administration will abandon Missile Defense in Poland and the Czech Republic represents a massive surrender of American Strategic Influence and a betrayal of two of our closest friends in the region. The move also indicates appeasement towards Russia, and a misunderstanding of the seriousness of the potential nuclear capability of Iran.
"The first nine months of the Obama administration have emboldened rogue dictators across the globe, and now an increasingly antagonistic Russia has been rewarded for bullying and threatening its neighbors. Not since the Carter administration has America looked so weak on the international stage.”
-Congressman Mike Pence, Indiana
ACTION:
We urge you to contact your elected officials in Washington, DC and tell them that the removal of missile defense plans was unwise and unwarranted and that we should not be practicing appeasement with other nations that want to interfere with the security interests of the United States.
ISSUE-IN-BRIEF: The abandonment of missile defense in Eastern Europe just one year after Russia invaded Georgia, and 70 years to the day after the Soviet Union invaded Poland, demonstrates that the Obama administration is continuing its policy of appeasing adversaries at the expense of our national security and the security of our allies. This move is only the latest in a string of national security decisions made by the Obama Administration which weaken the United States in the eyes of the world, which may be perilous to the well-being of our country and which could have a detrimental effect on peace in the world.
The Obama Administration has apparently decided to scrap the Polish and Czech anti-missile system because of objections from Russia – not because Russia is threatened by the system, but because of its desire for regional domination of the former states of the Soviet Union. By appeasing the Kremlin, the Obama foreign policy team believes, it may get more cooperation on the imposition of sanctions against Iran for its failure to negotiate over the Iranian nuclear ballistic missile program.
The installation of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic would provide “the fastest and most cost-effective protection against the long-range missiles that Iran is projected to have by 2015,” according to Lt. Gen. Trey Obering (ret.), former head of the Missile Defense Agency, and Eric Edelman, fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis, in a recent op-ed.
Beyond the strategic protection afforded by the missile defense system, scrapping it in Poland and the Czech Republic is a shameful abandonment of America’s friends in eastern and central Europe, and a slap in the face for those who actually believed that the US would stand by its agreements.
Abandonment of missile defense is not the only national security area where the Obama Administration has been derelict in its duty. In the following regions of concern, the administration has taken ill-advised positions, and is undermining America’s security.
· NORTH KOREA. Until recently the U.S. has insisted that it would negotiate directly with North Korea only on the condition that the North rejoins the six-party talks. One-on-one contact, requested by North Korea, would only occur in order to push Pyongyang back into multilateral negotiations over its atomic projects. Now Pyongyang claims to be close to the ability of enriching uranium, a development that would give it a second means of building nuclear weapons. As a result, the Obama Administration has announced that it will abandon the six-party-first requirement and meet one-on-one with Pyongyang negotiators.
· ISRAEL AND IRAN. President Obama gave Iran a deadline of October 1 to commence negotiations on its nuclear program. Iran has instead offered to talk on a range of non-related issues, but will not discuss nuclear issues – what the Wall Street Journal describes as the diplomatic equivalent of a giant kiss-off. Obama has also dropped Iran from his agenda in his Sept 24 meeting at the UN Security Council, telling the world that the deadline will pass and the US will do nothing. Instead, there is increasing belief that Israel will launch a strike to cripple, or at least delay Iran’s nuclear program. Such a strike could be catastrophic to peace in the Middle East, could strain the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz, and would certainly intensify the belief among other world leaders that the US is, again, a paper tiger.
· RUSSIA. According to Stratfor, the private intelligence firm, “In Moscow, the general view is that Obama is weak and inexperienced and is frightened of military confrontation…” When asked by the US to impose sanctions on Iran, Moscow refused, hoping that the US will remain bogged down in the Middle East and thus unable to deploy forces in Chechnya, Poland, the Czech Republic or other former Soviet states and satellites. Obama’s capitulation on missile defense will be viewed as a victory by Moscow, and will further weaken the United States in the eyes of the Russian regime.
· HONDURAS AND LATIN AMERICA. The Administration continues to support deposed Honduran strong-man and head of state Manuel Zelaya over democracy, insisting that Zelaya be returned to power in violation of the Honduran constitution -- consistent with demands of Venezuelan’s leftist repressive-thug leader Hugo Chavez. Recently, the State Department has terminated $30 million in foreign aid to Honduras, and is allegedly threatening other neighboring countries to support the US position or suffer the consequences.
· THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. Effective intelligence capabilities are crucial to the conduct of foreign policy and to military action. Yet the Obama Administration appears to be doing its best to emasculate and demoralize the American intelligence community. Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate CIA officers (who have already been investigated) for abuse of suicidal terrorist prisoners will be devastating to the morale and long-term effectiveness of the Agency; the Administration has failed to back the intelligence community in squabbles with the Democratic leadership of Congress concerning briefings given by CIA officials, and has furthermore failed to clearly delineate lines of authority between the various intelligence agencies, causing significant internal battles that should not exist.
CONSERVATIVE ACTION PROJECT
Cliff May, President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Edwin Meese, former Attorney General
Elaine Donnelly, President, Center for Military Readiness
Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council
Becky Norton Dunlop, President, Council for National Policy
James C. Miller III, former Reagan Budget Director
Wendy Wright, President, Concerned Women for America
Alfred Regnery, Publisher, American Spectator
Brent Bozell, President, Media Research Center
Richard Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com
David McIntosh, former Member of Congress, Indiana
Kenneth Blackwell, former U.S. Ambassador, U.N. Human Rights Commission
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE NEED FOR MISSILE DEFENSE PLEASE VISIT THESE WEBSITES:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZDdhZmE2MDNjOTdiZWYzMTk2YWEwMTE1OTU5N2NhMWQ
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/30030029.html
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDdhZmE2MDNjOTdiZWYzMTk2YWEwMTE1OTU5N2NhMWQ
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/17/united.states.missile.europe.analysis/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_re_eu/eu_eastern_europe_missile_defense
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091702303.html
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Oldefarte| 9.18.09 @ 2:54PM
Why is all of this suprising---------American voters SHOULD HAVE been aware of the possibilities of these occurances prior to 11/4/08!!!!!!
Fionnagh| 9.18.09 @ 4:00PM
From one oldefarte to another: Absolutely agree. And since my three remaining birth family members - all older sisters - are no longer speaking with me ( out-of-the-closet conservative that I now am) I will happily harrass them by emailing the above article. Thank God my one and only son has always been a conservative, and loved me enough to wait until I found the courage to leave the closet.
None of the disastrous moves Obama has made is a surprise to those of us who followed his campaign and, gee, what a concept, actually read his official web site.
XAnthippas| 9.18.09 @ 7:02PM
Fionnagh, if you send that you'll only confirm their decision not to speak to you. Send them this instead:
http://www.amconmag.com/lariso.....-movement/
A. G. Phillbin| 9.20.09 @ 2:32AM
Or he can also try:
http://www.amconmag.com/lariso.....sentative/
The American Conservative, the magazine movement conservatives should be forced to read, at gunpoint, if necessary, or even, PREFERABLY.
Old Redder| 9.18.09 @ 11:06PM
RUSSIA is going to take our healthcare because of this!
KERRY MARVIN| 9.19.09 @ 5:29PM
SENT TO GLENN BECK:
AMEN! Glenn,
For My Part, I am doing this, on American Spectator, One News Now and Human Events as well as My States Representatives. Alaxander and Roe.
My Wife Wants to Know Why I Make Myself a Target. DAV/USN-1968-1977! I Tell Her It Is NOT About ME. It Is About America I Love, and The Constitution I Swore To Uphold.
I Will Not Be Foresworn on My Oath. Even So Long Ago, I Meant It Then, And Stand By It NOW! Bravo Zulu!
Job Well Done Glenn.
Again, Bravo Zulu!
Forward For Your Attention:
Sir's, and Mam's of course,
My Advice Is to Get the Book By Miles Copland:
The Game of Nations. It Covers the Mideast Conflict from the inception of Israel in 1947 through the 1967 Six day War.
The Cover Page States, for the Title of Chapters,
1. If you can Not Change the Player's, Change the rules.
2. If you can Not Change the Rules, Change the Players.
Now I'm Not Saying that the Smoke and Mirror's Concept doesn't Alway's, Work.
It has Been Blowing Up in the Face of Most of the MidEast for Generations now.
To Date, The, Same Families, Fighting The Same Battle over the Same Piece of Ground,
For Over 4000 years since, Abraham Gave the Birthright Blessing to "The Wrong?" Son?
Therefore, Why, would Anyone Expect This to Be Different in this Contest?
When Good Men Do Nothing, The Evil that Men do, Proliferates, with Abandon.
IE: ACORN, The ACLU and the Rights of the Individual are Stepped on, and Ground underfoot by the Elite and Effite Members that have Usurped, By PC Etiquit? Or Their “OWN” Bigotry?
The Rights of "WE THE PEOPLE" not Only To Voice our GOD Given Right to Free Speech, But The Expressing of that Right,And OUR FREE CHOICE TO OPPOSE THEIR AGENDA:
IN " OUR" HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES" ?? And That THAT HOUSE, IS, " NOT" Their House! IT IS THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE!
They Are, Supposed to Represent US!
So Gentlemen and Gentle Ladies, I Suggest,
"The Constitution", as A Second Reading assignment, Along with THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
For My Part, I will Protest, Write, and Picket OUTSIDE THE CONGRESS,
< MEDIA OUTLETS and ANYWHERE, ELSE I CAN>
For: The Constitution, and First Amendment, Second Amendment, 10th Amendment, Etc, Ect..
IMPEACH THEM NOW!
THEN, PROSECUTE THEM TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, IN ALL FIFTY STATES!
TIME FOR “ALL” OF U.S. - TO TAKE A STAND!
CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN, AND STATES REPRESENTATIVE.
THEN, MAKE THE CASE FOR STATES RIGHTS AND VOTER REFORM, FOR THE SAKE OF THIS NATION!
TELL THE WANT TO CONTROL, GOV'T, "WE THE PEOPLE" HAVE CONTROL! AND IMPEACH THOSE;
WHO DO NOT FOLLOW THE LETTER AS WELL AS THE SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITUTION, AND OATH THEY SWORE TO UPHOLD!
THEN IMPEACH THOSE THAT PLAY FAST AND SHADY WITH THE "LETTER" OF THE LAW, AND ENFORCE THE LAWS WE DO HAVE FOR ANTI-CORRUPTION, MALFEASANCE AND WRONGDOING OF OUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS!
THEN PROSECUTE THEM "ALL" IN "ALL" FIFTY STATE JURISDICTIONS!
AND LET THEM KNOW THAT:
"WE THE PEOPLE" ARE THE GOV'T THEY SHOULD FEAR! NOT THE LAWYERS FOR ACLU!
AND BOUNCE OBAMA AND FRANK, PALOSIE, RIED, DODD, RANGEL AND THE REST OUT ON THEIR EAR AND REAR!
2010! NEVER AGAIN!
2012! WITH RESOLVE!
OUR, PROBLEM?
SOLVED!
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA and MAY GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS in HARMS WAY!
UNTIL THIS ADMINISTRATION: < HEARS U.S. and LISTENS TO U.S.> And REPRESENTS THE U.S. !!!!!!
IN MEMORY OF OUR TROOPS.
DEFENDERS OF OUR FREEDOM!
FOR THE NATION WHICH FORGETS IT'S DEFENDERS WILL ITSELF BE FORGOTEN!
A. G. Phillbin| 9.20.09 @ 2:39AM
Now that you've finished gesticulating and hyperventilating, I have to ask you:
JUST WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!???
Dan Phillips| 9.21.09 @ 12:30PM
The people who signed this are good men who have given much over time to the cause, but this is neither conservative nor leadership. It is more of the same ol' same ol' Cold War interventionism. The truly conservative response and the response that would show true leadership would be that it is not American's constitutional responsibility to police and protect the world and we should be disengaging from these issues, not fretting about them.
Tyrone| 10.4.09 @ 5:04PM
Fox News is really going after ACORN and they should! I just wish they would have went after President Bush as strong before he attacked Iraq for NOTHING. Maybe 4,300 plus American troop would be alive and not DEAD for a war that should have NEVER been started! Or if Fox News went after President Bush when he decide to give big big taxs breaks to the richest American and destroy the working class! President Obama is attack for anything that he does by the white control media. If he walked on water the white control media will say he didn't swim! The country is going to take time to be fix and every American should be behind the President. He did make this MESS!
Tyrone| 10.4.09 @ 5:08PM
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OR JUST HATERS
White racism is at the top of anti-American evil right up there with terrorism. The power of white racism is destroying America! The Republican Party has because the party of hatred the party of NO! White racist like David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white nationalist, former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan former Republican Louisiana State Representative, perennial candidate in presidential primaries and presidential elections, and wildlife photographer.
Duke describes himself as a racial realist asserting that "all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage". He speaks in favor of voluntary racial segregation and white separatism as a Republican
Duke has also unsuccessfully ran for the Louisiana State Senate, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Governor of Louisiana, and twice for President of the United States as a Republican.Sen. Lindsey Graham and House Republican leader like Sen. John Boehner are both anti-American and of the old white school of hatred. Their time is coming to a end! Americans are sick of the old white racist stupidity! The reason their is a black President is because of white republican leadership like Sen. Lindsey Graham and House Republican leader Sen. John Boehner. Good white people in America saw that voting white has not help them like in the past! Today whites saw that they where getting laid off just like black people. They where paying for food gas and loosing homes just like black people! Good white people started seeing white racist power structure was working for a few white but not for all. These nitwit that are showing up to these tea party are Republican leader Sen. John Boehner Sen. Lindsey Graham's people anti-America and plain STUPID! Former President Carter stated correctly that racism is involve in these tea party idiot. It's going to take white leadership to address white America on race and racism.Just like it was ok for President Obama to talk about black fathers in America. What former President Carter said“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man,” Carter told NBC News. Republicans called Carter’s remarks “very destructive” (Newt Gingrich) or “an outrage” (GOP chairman Michael Steele, who happens to be black himself). Their is a need for white leadership like President Carter! For too long we as a country have allowed white racism and stupidity to rule America! The results 64 America citizen murder adult and children by our government in WACO. Slavery "Sharecopper "Jim Crow" Segregation" Discrimination. NO healthcare coverage for ALL Americans. White evil greed which has brought down the country.Two wars one completely and totally unnessesary ( THE IRAQ WAR)!The only people to shout down white racism is WHITE PEOPLE!
2 CHAPTER
Tyrone| 10.5.09 @ 2:15PM
Fox News is fast to try and point out President Obama short coming! Now it's the failure to get the Summer Olympic. They are reporting on how much it cost for the President to travels. Fox News would have spend the story if President Obama didn't try to get the Summer Olympic that he didn't care about America. Remember President Bush stupidly started a war in Iraq for NOTHING! (4,300 plus DEAD) (Over 100,000 Iraqi citizen DEAD) for NOTHING!The real problem for President Obama is the reluctant of the Democrate Party and their disrespect of America chosen President. Unlike former President Bush the Democrate and Republicans together where behind that President Bush to start and continue the war in Iraq. That today we know there where NO --WOMD! We know that there was NO need to start a war in Iraq! Afghanistan another war started by President Bush with NO plan! President Obama now is blame for not enough troops in Afghanistan. When President Obama is trying to figure out should the war continue! Bottom line I think if President Obama walked on water Fox News would say he didn't swim!