The Most Disturbing Thing About Obama's "Flexability" Statement on Missile Defense

One thing we know about Barack Obama is that he desperately believes the U.S. and Russia should stand down on the number of nuclear weapons that each possesses. So, yesterday, when Barack Obama was overheard telling the Russian President that he would have more flexibility on missile defense after he's reelected, he raised numerous questions regarding the security of this nation in an Obama second term.

For many on the right, that statement by our President just reinforced the real fear that a second-term Obama may hand over our secret missile defense technology to the Russians in some kind of false belief that this action would allow them to build there own missile defense system and, in so doing, make both countries "equally" defensible against a nuclear attack from the other. It is assumed that if that happened, both country's stockpiles of nuclear weapons would become useless; logically leading to a mutual and complete movement towards disarmament.

But, to me and many others on the right, this action would be like giving an art thief the details of all the security systems at the Louvre. Thus giving the thief the ability to rob the place blind. For the Russians, it would mean that they could glean any weaknesses in our missile defense systems. From this, they would be able to build a nuclear strike capability that could theoretically render our missile defense system blind. And, for the very same reason, it is only logical that the Russians wouldn't actually build a missile defense system that we fully understood.

I just believe that Obama's push for nuclear arms reduction between the Russians and ourselves is a failure to understand that the nuclear cat is already out of the bag. It really doesn't matter if the Russians have 10,000 nuclear weapons or less than 500. As few as 50 strategically-targeted strikes could literally bring America to its knees. Our focus should be on those nations who hate us--such as North Korea or Iran--who are more likely than the Russians to launch an attack against us or our allies.