By John R. Guardiano at FrumForum
Ronald Reagan famously said that the United States and the Soviet Union didn’t fear each other because they had nuclear weapons; they had nuclear weapons because they feared each other. This insight served as the basis for the Reagan administration’s rearming of America, both conventional and nuclear, and consequent victory in the Cold War.
The Obama administration, not surprisingly, has set out to reverse this winning policy and to begin dismantling America’s nuclear deterrent. This because the president and the far left pine for a world free of nuclear weapons.
“The existence of thousands of nuclear weapons is the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War,” Obama insisted in his April 5, 2009 Prague speech. “So today, I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”
Actually, the existence of thousands of nuclear weapons is not the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War; the rise of radical Islam is.
