The Times article reported on Obama’s March 1983 article “Breaking the war mentality.” The Times noted that in the article Obama railed against discussions of “first-versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.
In his article Obama praised the nuclear freeze movement and celebrated the work of two groups: Arms Race Alternatives and Students Against Militarism. By Obama’s description of them, the groups were among the “useful idiots” promoting the Soviet line on Reagan’s build-up: “These groups, visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are shifting their weight into throwing America off the dead-end track.”
Obama expressed and dismissed a possible reservation regarding the “narrow focus” of the groups, citing the deep wisdom of Peter Tosh that “everybody’s asking for peace, but nobody’s asking for justice.” Heavy, man.
Reader ET spots a pattern;
He uses an IF-THEN apocalyptic framework. If you don’t do what he wants, THEN, an terrible apocalpyse will result. He’s quite successful in this.
IF you don’t pass his stimulus bill, THEN, the US and even the world economy will collapse.
He got Congress to pass this – without reading or debating it..and we now find it’s nothing but a pork filled patronage mess that’s irrelevant to jobs.
IF you don’t pass his health care bill, THEN, 40 million Americans will die.
He got Congress to pass this…by using backroom bribes, pay-offs, and political deals…and it has nothing to do with providing better health care.
Now, he’s..into another one:
IF you don’t pass his nuclear weapons reduction, THEN, the terrorists will steal these weapons and use them against you.
Related – “Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) said conversations with Senate colleagues have left him unsure that there are the required 67 votes to ratify the new START treaty signed by President Obama last week in Prague.”
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