All Due Credit

The United States never permitted the Soviet Union  or her successor states to dictate our defense posture under any previous President. US defense policy was predicated on our needs and the requirements of our allies. President Barack Hussein Obama promised change, and he is definitely different. Obama has allowed Russia to dictate terms to us and in so doing, has sold out the Czech Republic which had pledged to host our missile defense at the cost of angering Russia during the last Bush administration. Obama who is now an honored guest of the Czechs at a signing ceremony with Russia that makes us less secure, pulled the rug out from under the Czech Republic, an ally who willingly took a risk for us. This should be instructive to Israel about Obama's sense of loyalty, as the Jewish state is being asked to "take risks for peace", of course, with no Palestinian interlocutor who truly wants or can deliver peace. Once again, we see a situation where Obama demonstrates moral inversion with twisted values that make us all less secure. The lesson of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and START was that any nation with whom you need an arms control treaty with is likely to violate said treaty at the first opportunity and subject you to verification procedures that it will not accept for itself or will reserve a right for itself to back out. Worthless signatures on papers with which only we comply and that ultimately only cost us are the almost inevitable result. And that was the beauty of Reagan- he recognized that there could only be peace through strength, making him the anti-Obama. No Cold War victory (the fruits of which Obama is now bent on squandering) could have been possible without Ronald Wilson Reagan. Reagan was the essential leader. Not the Solidarity resistance led by Lech Walesa, not the moral authority of Pope John Paul II, or even the alliance with the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher- though all certainly contributed, certainly not Gorbachev who receives credit fashionably in the dinosaur media and academe, but who without the push from Reagan would have been content as just another strongman commissar. Reagan won the Cold War, not through compromise, but by spending the Soviet Union into oblivion withe the Strategic Defense Initiative. Whether the leftist apologists at the Union of Concerned Scientists realized it or not, Reagan's strategy was not necessarily  to create an impervious barrier to Soviet missiles, but to force the  flagging Soviet economy suffering under central planning to compete with our research and development expenditure, a strategic premise that Reagan knew their moribund system could never survive under- and it did not. We won, the West triumphed; through strength, Reagan prevailed.