Friends, interesting …. when reading a few days ago that President Obama was considering “No First Use” regarding nuclear weapons, I pondered at that time, “Is this a ploy to get the issue aired (because others have begun bringing it up) …. then get a hefty response from the “First Use” crowd around him? I’m not psychic, but it was obvious that this would happen––and it has.
So now we have it — our futures look to be relentlessly driven toward a confrontation, or in less sanitized words, a massive Nuclear War. Meanwhile, our hard-working American citizens who run daycare centers, schools, churches, hospitals, businesses, universities and city halls know little to nothing about this. Why? Because they read only mainstream media and watch U.S. TV news — which are not reporting what our top investigative journalists, academicians, scientists and now mayors of American cities are urging. That is, back off on pushing Russia from all directions, reduce the number of nuclear weapons, and declare a ’No First Strike” policy.
Do our current U.S. policymakers have a death wish? Will they force a war with Russia and Putin because they’ve begun to believe their own disinformation? Do they think their grandchildren won’t be destroyed in the process? It is unfathomable …. simply unfathomable.
What are we knowledgable, informed citizens of America to do?
Your thoughts please.
Sharon
Wall Street Journal
August 12, 2016
‘No First Use’ Nuclear Policy Proposal Assailed by U.S. Cabinet Officials, Allies
Obama’s disarmament agenda hits significant roadblock on opposition from Kerry, Carter and Moniz
By PAUL SONNE, GORDON LUBOLD and CAROL E. LEE
WASHINGTON—A proposal under consideration at the White House to reverse decades of U.S. nuclear policy by declaring a “No First Use” protocol for nuclear weapons has run into opposition from top cabinet officials and U.S. allies.
The opposition, from Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, as well as allies in Europe and Asia, leaves President Barack Obama with few ambitious options to enhance his nuclear disarmament agenda before leaving office, unless he wants to override the dissent.
The possibility of a “No First Use” declaration—which would see the U.S. explicitly rule out a first strike with a nuclear weapon in any conflict—met resistance at a National Security Council meeting in July, where the Obama administration reviewed possible nuclear disarmament initiatives it could roll out before the end of the president’s term.
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