The Foundry

Posts Tagged ‘nuclear arms’

• Morning Bell: The President Must Stop Voting “Present” on Iran

  Posted February 12th, 2010 at 9:50am in American Leadership with 43 comments

  Yesterday in Tehran’s Azadi Square, hundreds of thousands of Iranians turned out to listen to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech marking the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Ahmadinejad did not disappoint the adoring crowd, defiantly announcing that Iran had become a “nuclear state,” adding: “The Iranian nation is brave enough that if one day we [...] More

• Ahmadinejad: Iran is a “Nuclear State”

  Posted February 11th, 2010 at 1:12pm in American Leadership with 1 comments

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today used the annual celebration of the anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution to announce that Iran has become a “nuclear state.” Although the bombastic dictator has made this claim before, his exultant announcement came shortly after Iran had announced that it would enrich uranium to the 20 percent level that it [...] More

• Obama’s “Reset” Button Quickly Changing to “Panic”

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 5:30pm in American Leadership with 21 comments

  Given Iran’s well established pattern of behavior (and Russia’s, and China’s) we were highly skeptical about President Barack Obama’s “Reset Button” approach to U.S. diplomacy. And now it seems that the failure of Obama administration’s Iranian engagement strategy is about to shift the focus of U.S. diplomacy from “reset” to “panic.” Reuters reports: The United States wants [...] More

• Iran Announces Plans for Highly Enriched Uranium

  Posted February 8th, 2010 at 5:05pm in American Leadership with 6 comments

  Iran’s government announced that it was pushing ahead with plans to enrich uranium to 20 percent levels, ostensibly to fuel a research reactor. The latest Iranian zig zag came only days after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that Iran was open to a deal on exchanging some of its stockpile of low enriched uranium for fuel for [...] More

• Senate Should Uphold Reagan’s Vision on Arms Control

  Posted January 30th, 2010 at 10:22am in American Leadership, Protect America with 2 comments

  During his State of the Union Speech President Obama underscored his goal of “getting to zero” nuclear weapons by citing Ronald Reagan’s aspirations for a world without nuclear weapons: I have embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan through a strategy that reverses the spread of these weapons, and seeks a world without [...] More

• Iran: Regime Change We Can Believe In

  Posted January 27th, 2010 at 11:59am in American Leadership with 8 comments

  Iran’s Green Movement opposition has proven to be a stronger and more persistent political force than many advocates of diplomatic engagement with Iran’s dictatorship had expected. This development, as well as the regime’s continued duplicity and foot-dragging on the nuclear issue, has led some to revise their thinking about supporting regime change in Iran. [...] More

• “We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know” on Iran’s Nuclear Program

  Posted January 16th, 2010 at 12:04pm in American Leadership, Protect America with 4 comments

  The Pentagon’s top intelligence official this week indicated that although Iran has been developing the means to build nuclear weapons, his agency has discerned no sign that Tehran has made a final decision to do so. Lt. General Ronald Burgess, the chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Voice of America in an [...] More

• Obama’s Nuclear Dream Could Endanger America

  Posted January 5th, 2010 at 1:20pm in Protect America with 23 comments

  According to a January 4 report in the Los Angeles Times, President Obama’s plan for nuclear disarmament is meeting opposition from the Department of Defense. Specifically, the Department of Defense believes that President Obama’s plan jeopardizes U.S. security. They are right. First and foremost, the American people need to understand that U.S. nuclear forces and the [...] More

• On Nukes, Obama is Playing Right into Putin’s Hands

  Posted December 30th, 2009 at 12:19pm in Protect America with 18 comments

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has made it clear that he plans for Russia to respond to the fielding of missile defense systems by the United States by modernizing Russia’s nuclear force in order to overcome the defense. This is not surprising because Russian officials have been stating for some time that they plan to seek [...] More

• It’s Called Morale Mr. President – You Are Supposed to Provide It

  Posted December 2nd, 2009 at 12:43pm in American Leadership with 21 comments

  Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: “Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.” So why did President Obama choose last night’s address to further disintegrate what morale is left in the fight in Iraq? Choosing the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York was on first blush a wise decision. [...] More