Russia is still an enemy of the USA, if for no other reason than its Iran policies, including opposition of oil sanctions, and that it "regrets" Iran's nuclear ambitions. Further, Russians were spying on the USA. So any act to further their interests to give them aid is treasonous.
President Barack Hussein Obama told Congress on January 4, 2012, that he is prepared to share US missile defense secrets with Russia. Obama said restrictions aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on US Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) velocity burnout parameters "might impinge" on his constitutional foreign policy authority. How Obama can interpret foreign policy in such a way that it may harm this country is beyond me. Perhaps readers can supply an answer.
And all of this comes as he announces reductions in the military and its budget. When making his announcement, Obama said his plan is "smart, strategic" and sets priorities. Nowhere in his smart, strategic, prioritized plan is there any mention of him giving our strategic secrets to the Russians. So much for keeping faith with our troops, military families and veterans.
US officials are planning to provide Moscow with the SM-3 data, despite reservations from security officials who say that doing so could compromise the effectiveness of the system by allowing Russian weapons technicians to counter the missile. Further, there are concerns that Russia could share the secret data with China, as well as rogue states such as Iran and North Korea, to help their missile programs defeat US missile defenses. The thinking is that this knowledge will help alleviate Russia's fears that the planned missile defenses in Europe would be used against Russian ICBMs. Obama is willing to give away technological secrets highly desired by Russia (and especially by China) in a liberal pursuit of a thirty-year-old grudge against former President Ronald Reagan's policy of "peace through strength."
Article comments
1 - Glenn Contrarian
Gee, that's almost as bad as when Reagan announced as soon as we had a ballistic missile shield, he' give the technology to the Soviets so they could have it too!
2 - zingzing
all of this is prefaced on the fact that you consider russia to still be our enemy. that may or may not be, but you still seem to think it's the cold war. get out of the 80s, mr. beatty. reds was a good movie though.
"Barack Hussein Obama is determined to destroy the USA any way he can."
oh for the love of god, please shove it.
3 - Jim Wynne
Shorter Beatty: Barack Husein Obama continues to be a liberal black man with a foreign-sounding name. The is the very definition of TREASON!!1!
4 - Glenn Contrarian
Warren -
I answered your questions here.
5 - Igor
It's amazing that anyone would complain about Obama after the violations committed during the Bush administration.
I'm afraid that Bush set such a bad example and gave implicit approval to such great infamies that it's hard to find fault with Obamas mild transgressions.
6 - Warren Beatty
Re: comment #1, Glenn, what Reagan proposed to share with the (former) USSR was an idea that never came to fruition, a far cry from what Obama has done/proposes to do. The Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) was never developed and could not be given away, even though its focus was entirely on defense. Star Wars caused a real sticking point for Gorbachev and the USSR during the Reykjavík, Iceland, summit. When Gorbachev rejected Reagan's offer, Reagan left.
Bottom line: Reagan did NOT provide the USSR with any strategic secrets. Obama signed the START treaty. Obama, as required by the Russians in order for them to go along with START, gave Russia strategic secrets about Great Britain's nuclear missiles, supplied, BTW, by the US.
Re: comment #2, zing, is the best response you can offer? I'm quite disappointed.
Re: comment #5, OK, Igor, time to get specific and give citations of George Walker Bush's treasonous activities - as defined by the US Consatitution, not your opinion.
7 - Glenn Contrarian
Ah, the START treaty - you mean the one initiated by Reagan?
Furthermore, Warren, do you really, truly think we'd give the Russians good info on those missiles? Do you really? Especially when it's our military that's giving those numbers? No, I don't think so. Just because a politician says something doesn't mean it's what it looks like on the surface. "Trust me, Boris - these really are accurate numbers! See? We wrote them right there on the deed to the Brooklyn Bridge!"
When I see actual proof that those are accurate numbers we're giving the Russians, then i'll believe it and not before...but we (like the Russians) won't see the real numbers.
Now if you want real treason, how about Cheney's exposure of a CIA agent during time of war? And then there's Iran-Contra, wherein we were selling arms to Iran. Those are hard-and-fast PROVEN cases. With the numbers you're referring to, there's no way to prove them...and Obama, our military, and the Russians all know it.
8 - zingzing
"Re: comment #2, zing, is the best response you can offer? I'm quite disappointed."
well, my one bit of substance (which calls into question something you don't seem to question at all, like the last 20 years never happened,) is better than the complete lack of substance you offered back... so good job warren! you are a credit to your name.
9 - Igor
Geez Warren, do you really need another citation of GWBs acts against the constitution?
10 - Warren Beatty
Re: comment #9, yes, Igor, I do, and I'm waiting.
11 - Glenn Contrarian
Warren -
How about
(1) the Patriot Act, the complete subversion of our protections against search and seizure without a warrant (which was to some extent continued by Obama);
(2) the illegal invasion of a nation which had not attacked us and posed no clear and present danger to us, and the fact that it was done on false pretenses (having been proposed and discussed a mere TEN DAYS after Bush took the Oath of Office, and more than eight months BEFORE 9/11);
(3) his protection of Dick Cheney when the latter exposed a CIA agent during wartime and so exposed her entire network of operatives (which, last I recall, is quite treasonous); and
(4) his firing of those Attorneys General who refused to prosecute people on CLEARLY trumped up charges of voter fraud just prior to an election, even though they pointed out that there was obviously insufficient evidence that there was any such voter fraud.
Warren, the worst president since 1900 is not George W. Bush - IMO, it's Woodrow Wilson, who was a Democrat (but this was in the days when Democrats were the conservatives). W., in my opinion, is simply the most incompetent we've had since Wilson.
12 - Glenn Contrarian
And Warren -
I was really surprised to hear how well you knew my old stomping grounds. My reply is here.
13 - John811c
Like it or not this violates the secrets act of the United states, any person who willingly gives secrets to any country friendly or not IS GUILTY OF TREASON an impeachable offense
14 - John811c
Regan was a good poker player, his bluff was the SDI and the USSR went bankrupt trying to counter it
15 - John811c
Not that we need another GW Bush, but what we do need is true American Patriots to step up to the plate but this may not happen it may already be to late the communists are in power now
16 - Igor
#15-John Bir811ch: really?! The Commies? How did they sneak that in?
17 - Glenn Contrarian
Igor -
Don'tcha know that with Hollywood's help, we've already replaced Congress with the Central Communist Committee who are even now deliberating our next five-year plan? Thanks to the computer wizards under the direct employ of Barbara Streisand, we've got all the major media, the blogosphere and the newspapers fooled into thinking their politicians are real when in fact they're just digital projections!
We've also forced our entire military to take oath to obey the Party, and Premier Obama (pbuh) has sent a squadron of armed helicopters - all painted black - to take over the residence of some capitalist pig who goes by the name of 'John811c'.
Power to the Party!
18 - American
Fuck Hussein!
19 - Kyle Hussein Hunter
Oh that's intelligent
20 - Dr Hussein Dreadful
And he's a necrophiliac to boot.
21 - American
As if electing a leader who hates your country was ingenious?
22 - TruthandFreedom
It says in end times the United States will have a nuclear war and will be taken out by Russia... Let's get it started right now and give them all our codes!! :)