September 15, 2011

Would Obama Retaliate against a Nuclear Attack?

By Rabbi Aryeh Spero
What if a Muslim country, such as Iran, launched a nuclear attack against us, or if agents aligned with Pakistan using dirty bombs were to attack America?  Would Barack Hussein Obama retaliate with nuclear force, as has been our stated policy since the 1950s?  Would he even unleash a barrage of non-nuclear shock and awe that would level those countries so that they'd be incapable of striking a second time? When queried in Japan in November 2009, Mr. Obama declined to defend President Harry Truman's nuclear attack on Hiroshima, despite it having saved hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who would have otherwise died trying to defeat the recalcitrant Japanese.  Many on the left and in academia have gone so far as to characterize it as a display of American racism, questioning if we would have done so had the victims been British.  They ignore the efficacy of how that one-time use of a nuclear weapon spared this country from ever being a victim of nuclear...(Read Full Article)