Since President Obama signed the new treaty with Russia limiting and reducing the stockpiles of nuclear weapons, and the outrage by candidates and elected officials over his decision, its time to compare and contrast with our hero, Ronald Reagan.
Let's look at the reaction by Reagan when the Marine barracks were blown up by Islamic terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon 1983. Nothing. No ground troops stationed in the Middle East. No special forces involvement. No sustained air bombardment.
How about dealing with the Russians and their nuclear ambitions? Quote 'I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete'. Ronald Reagan.
President Obama has increased troops in Afghanistan and plans to maintain a troop level of over 50,000 American military personal in Iraq indefinitely.
Mr. Obama to this point is more of a hawk than Mr. Reagan ever was.
Thad, from the title I was expecting a quite different blog. I must say I was quite pleased that we both arrive at the same conclusion - Mr. Obama is more of a hawk than Mr. Reagan. Instead of tearing down walls, we've become a nation building walls.
ReplyDelete