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The Patriot Post Chronicle 4-10-2013
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President Goes Wobbly on Nuclear Weapons
April 10, 2013
The Foundation
"National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --John Adams
Editorial Exegesis
"President Obama came to office in 2009 promising to negotiate with America's enemies and create a world without nuclear weapons. Four years later, North Korea is threatening America with nuclear attack, Iran is closer to its own atomic arsenal, and the world is edging ever closer to a dangerous new era of nuclear proliferation. The promises and the reality are connected. ... All of this is occurring even as Mr. Obama has pursued the most aggressive nuclear arms control agenda since the 1970s -- or more likely because of it. In April 2009, the President famously declared that reducing U.S. nuclear stockpiles 'will then give us a greater moral authority to say to Iran, don't develop a nuclear weapon; to say to North Korea, don't proliferate nuclear weapons.' Mr. Obama has since cut the U.S. arsenal in the Start treaty with Russia and he's negotiating more reductions that he may not submit for Senate ratification. None of this 'moral authority' has had the least deterrent effect on Iran or North Korea. The truth is the opposite. The world can see the U.S. has acquiesced in North Korea's weapons program and lacks the will to stop Iran. It can see the U.S. is shrinking its own nuclear capacity through arms control, even as rogue threats grow. And it can see the U.S. is ambivalent about its allies getting nuclear weapons even as it does little to shore up the U.S. umbrella or allied defenses. Above all, the world can hear Mr. Obama declare for domestic American audiences that 'the tide of war is receding' despite the growing evidence to the contrary. On present trend, the President who promised to rid the world of nuclear weapons is setting the stage for their greatest proliferation since the dawn of the atomic age." --The Wall Street Journal1
Upright
"As we celebrate the remarkable life of Margaret Thatcher, it is fitting that we remember the most important aspect of it: She won, and she deserved to win. Those who opposed her and reviled her were on the wrong side of the most important question of their age, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with tyrants, many of them as guilty as those who manned the gulag watchtowers. And even today, when they make their pilgrimages to sit at the feet of Castro or bury Chávez, when they put leftist terrorists on their payrolls, they know: They lost. What they do not know, because they are incapable of understanding the fact, is that they deserved to lose. We should not allow them to pretend that they were on the right side all along." --National Review's Kevin D. Williamson
"We tend to think that leaders like [Margaret Thatcher], Ronald Reagan, et al. ought to be the norm -- that if we could only find another Thatcher or Reagan we could regain control of our societies. But alas, such figures are the exceptions, especially in democracies, where the ability to get elected now appears to be the sole qualification to run for office, even high office. How else to explain the election, twice, of a man of mediocre accomplishment such as Barack Obama? ... Wishing for another Thatcher or Reagan is not the answer. Hoping that another will come along is not a plan. Not strangling them in their cradles when they do finally appear is the key." --columnist Michael Walsh
"Hatred follows those who stand for the truth. It does take courage to stand for what you believe, for what is right. It's a lesson that many politicians need to learn. It's easy when the media and public opinion support you, but what to do when the hard choices need to be made for the greater good that short-sighted spectacles cannot focus on. The lessons of Thatcherism stand the test of time. ... Above all, we must learn to, as Mrs. Thatcher so ably put it, 'stand on principle or not stand at all.'" --columnist David C. Jennings
"Being underestimated is a great gift in politics. Ronald Reagan was dubbed an 'amiable dunce' before he was known as the 'Teflon president,' and Thatcher had imbecile charm before she was dubbed ... the 'Iron Lady.' ... It's worth remembering that Thatcher did not destroy the British equivalent of what Americans call liberalism. She destroyed socialism, which was a thriving concern ... in Britain. When Labor decided to get serious about winning elections again, Tony Blair had to repudiate the party's century-long support for doctrinaire socialism and embrace the market. Soon, Bill Clinton followed suit, bending his party to Reagan's legacy. Suddenly, liberals were playing the 'me-too' game. That's one reason the left still hates her and Reagan so much. Thatcher and Reagan didn't just force change on their societies, they forced change on their enemies, proving that the wave of the future is not so inevitable after all." --columnist Jonah Goldberg
Insight From Margaret Thatcher
"You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear."
"There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter -- there is no charm or bar against it."
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing."
"That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of the politicians are far greater compared with the ordinary folk than in any other country. The nations that have gone for freedom, justice and independence of people have still freedom and justice, and they have far more equality between their people, far more respect for each individual than the other nations. Go my way. You will get freedom and justice and much less difference between people than you do in the Soviet Union."
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