I'm going to post an excerpt from Obama’s 1983 Nuclear Freeze article "Breaking the War Mentality", in order to show that liberal peacniks have ALWAYS been illogical. It was a student article trying to explain and contrast a couple of anti-war organizations on the Columbia University campus. Here are words from one of the guys the O interviewed, a Mark Bigelow:
"Because of [Pershing II and Cruise missiles] small size and mobility, their deployment will make possible arms control verification far more difficult, and cut down warning time for the Sovietsto less than ten minutes. That can only be a destabilizing factor."
How is that a possible answer? The Pershings and Cruise Missiles, by virtue of their rapid strike times, brought stability by making the Russians think twice (or thrice) about committing to a first strike. The only way the argument otherwise makes any sense is if you assume we were planning WITH INTENT to perpetrate a first strike ourselves.
The O embraced the 'We Suck' doctrine a quarter century ago, and apparently still does. At least the freakish thing is consistent.
(I fervently do not wish this to become a blog about Obama, as he is merely symptomatic of the disease of liberalism and ignorance of history.)
For the entire 1983 article, see:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/nytint/docs/obama-s-1983-college-magazine-article/original.pdf
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