President Obama Imperils Our Nation’s Security | NewsReal Blog

President Obama Imperils Our Nation’s Security | NewsReal Blog: "President Obama chose an interview with his favorite news outlet, The New York Times, to announce a radical new direction for America’s nuclear strategy. He is substantially narrowing the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons. Even if we are attacked with biological or chemical weapons, Obama is now declaring our use of any type of nuclear weapons in response is off limits in most cases.

Obama is also renouncing the development of any new nuclear weapons, overriding the initial position of his own Secretary of Defense. The nuclear freeze crowd must be dancing in the streets.

Obama is carving out a limited exception to his no-nuclear response policy when it comes to Iran and North Korea and is not including attacks by a nuclear state within the scope of his ban on a nuclear response. Nevertheless, he is signaling a major retreat from our country’s long bipartisan policy of deterrence, containment and deliberate public ambiguity about our nuclear strategy. And his exceptions do not provide much comfort."