Darin,
You need to go deeper into the thought process. All of the enemies of the United States know that Ploughshares director Joe Cirincione is Barack Obama’s point man on arms control issues. Obama and Cirincione are in agreement with each other that major programs like the missile defense one should be scrapped. Russia, China, and Iran are three countries that have a deep interest in seeing Obama as the next president because in one fell swoop their nuclear arsenals will once again have the ability to threaten and blackmail the world and the United States. And of those three only one of them is not susceptible to the logic of MAD: Iran.
And I take offense to your statement because it presumes that those of us who object to Obama’s foreign policy preferences are not deeply informed about the issues. Many of us are. I happen to have an in-law who is high up in the missile defense program, so within reason (he cannot divulge top secret stuff to me)I stay informed about this evolving and successful program.
An Obama Presidency is a windfall for our enemies. Bank on it. In four years what that man will do will make Jimmy Carter’s four years seem like “Happy Days.”
