Tuesday’s Associated Press report that President Obama is considering large cuts in our strategic arsenal is just the latest of this week’s grim news about the president’s national-defense plans.
On nukes, the administration is apparently pondering reductions of up to 80 percent of deployed warheads — a breathtaking slash to our nuclear-deterrence posture. This comes on top of troubling plans outlined in the president’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal.
Put simply, the budget features a serious mismatch between the resources it gives our military and the likely global threats that our forces must contend with.
None can claim they didn't see this coming, since it's exactly what Obama promised in 2007: "I will set as a goal a world without nuclear weapons." Much of the progressive mindset is merely foolish. But the idea that unilateral disarmament will somehow make us safer is downright dangerous.
