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On the Right on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:53:48 PM
He views Iran's nuclear threat as "tiny." He'd meet with its leader,
who is pledged to Israel's destruction. His adviser wants Israel to
disarm. Clearly, Barack Obama is running for Jimmy Carter's second term.
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. . . He consistently demonstrates his lack of qualifications to be commander in chief based on experience, worldview and judgment.
His latest foray into dangerous naivete came while campaigning
Sunday in Pendleton, Ore. He told the assembled multitude: "Iran? Cuba?
Venezuela? — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union.
They don't pose a threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat
to us."
He went on to defend his policy of "aggressive personal diplomacy"
and called for "tough, disciplined and direct diplomacy. That's what
Kennedy did. That'd what Reagan did."
Well, not quite.
Obama said that Reagan's "direct negotiation" with Gorbachev "over
time allowed the kind of opening that brought down the Berlin Wall."
What brought down the Berlin Wall, and the Soviet Union, was Reagan's
unrelenting resistance to and confrontation with the "evil empire"
based on his strategy of "we win, they lose." That was how Reagan
"negotiated" with Gorbachev.
Yes, Reagan talked with Gorbachev. But he resisted the Soviet
advance from Nicaragua to Grenada to Afghanistan. He put Pershing
missiles in Europe. He launched the Strategic Defense Initiative and
said "nyet" when Gorbachev wanted us to deal it away. When Reagan said,
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," the end of the Cold War already
was a fait accompli.
Obama responded during a campaign stop Monday in Billings, Mont.: "The
Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have
one." And he'll probably believe that right up to the moment the phone
rings at 3 a.m. and he hears: "Mr. President, Tel Aviv has been nuked."