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KBOO
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Air date:
Wed, 12/03/2014 - 12:00am
Interviews with Alice Slater and Noelle Hanrahan
Three Defense Secretaries later, President Obama is still unable to get his own Defense Department under control.
Chuck Hagel – our last, best chance to get it right – is gone. And who, pray tell, pops up out of the proverbial rat hole? Why it’s good old Ashton Carter…
Under Bill Clinton, Carter was present at the desecration of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Clinton’s $6 billion promise to the Dr. Strangeloves in the U.S. weapons labs was essentially a promise that they could do computer simulated laboratory tests of nuclear weapons. Add to that sub-critical tests a thousand feet below the desert floor at the Nevada test site, where plutonium is blown up with explosives. Because there is no chain reaction, the Clinton administration contended it was not a test, kind of like not inhaling or not having sex with that woman.
Clinton here there and everywhere...
Now as we gaze into the abyss of a Hillary Clinton presidency, here comes Ashton Carter, a true ‘Hawk’s Hawk’.
The world is far more volatile than ever before and according to Slater, "It was because the U.S. refused to preclude advanced technical testing that India announced it would do a whole new series of nuclear tests, developing its own nuclear arsenal, swiftly followed by Pakistan. This $6 billion program grew like a cancer upon the nation and is now projected to cost $1 trillion over the next 30 years with projections for new bomb factories, new warheads, and delivery systems.
Carter was also instrumental in establishing the policy that led to the new demonization of Russia which we see today. He advised Clinton on missile technology and how the U.S. could begin to deploy a missile shield in Alaska while claiming it was not violating the 1972 anti-ballistic Missile treaty with Russia, although Russia was not convinced. Bush actually walked out of the ABM treaty, which Clinton had already violated, and the missile race was on. Carter also advised Obama on expanding the U.S. empire to Asia in the so-called Asia pivot, which resulted in new bases in the Pacific, expanded missile shields with Japan and South Korea, and actually stationing troops in Australia."
In 2006, Carter outflanked the Bush administration, advocating a strike on North Korea if they did a ballistic missile test in a Washington Post op-ed titled "If Necessary, Strike and Destroy."
In 1996, he warned of the presumed threats posed by Iraq and Iran's alleged weapons of mass destruction programs.
And he’s Baaaack…
Chuck Hagel – our last, best chance to get it right – is gone. And who, pray tell, pops up out of the proverbial rat hole? Why it’s good old Ashton Carter…
Under Bill Clinton, Carter was present at the desecration of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Clinton’s $6 billion promise to the Dr. Strangeloves in the U.S. weapons labs was essentially a promise that they could do computer simulated laboratory tests of nuclear weapons. Add to that sub-critical tests a thousand feet below the desert floor at the Nevada test site, where plutonium is blown up with explosives. Because there is no chain reaction, the Clinton administration contended it was not a test, kind of like not inhaling or not having sex with that woman.
Clinton here there and everywhere...
Now as we gaze into the abyss of a Hillary Clinton presidency, here comes Ashton Carter, a true ‘Hawk’s Hawk’.
The world is far more volatile than ever before and according to Slater, "It was because the U.S. refused to preclude advanced technical testing that India announced it would do a whole new series of nuclear tests, developing its own nuclear arsenal, swiftly followed by Pakistan. This $6 billion program grew like a cancer upon the nation and is now projected to cost $1 trillion over the next 30 years with projections for new bomb factories, new warheads, and delivery systems.
Carter was also instrumental in establishing the policy that led to the new demonization of Russia which we see today. He advised Clinton on missile technology and how the U.S. could begin to deploy a missile shield in Alaska while claiming it was not violating the 1972 anti-ballistic Missile treaty with Russia, although Russia was not convinced. Bush actually walked out of the ABM treaty, which Clinton had already violated, and the missile race was on. Carter also advised Obama on expanding the U.S. empire to Asia in the so-called Asia pivot, which resulted in new bases in the Pacific, expanded missile shields with Japan and South Korea, and actually stationing troops in Australia."
In 2006, Carter outflanked the Bush administration, advocating a strike on North Korea if they did a ballistic missile test in a Washington Post op-ed titled "If Necessary, Strike and Destroy."
In 1996, he warned of the presumed threats posed by Iraq and Iran's alleged weapons of mass destruction programs.
And he’s Baaaack…
- KBOO
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