AMERICA'S NUCLEAR ARMS ARSENAL FAILING - IS A LIE

FEAR.
IF ONE CAN INSTILL FEAR IN ANOTHER, ONE CAN MANIPULATE THE ONE WHO FEARS.

THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN AMERICA EVERY SINGLE DAY.
WE'RE SPOON-FED FEAR, FROM EVERY MAJOR MEDIA SOURCE TO THE "BS" RHETORIC EMANATING FROM CAPITOL HILL AND THE OVAL OFFICE.

"BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!"

BUT, LOOK!
YOUR LOVING GOVERNMENT CAN SAVE YOU!
JUST HAND OVER ALL YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND DON'T QUESTION ANYTHING WE SAY OR DO AND WE CAN SAVE YOU FROM THE "TERROR", THE "MONSTER"

RUSSIA IS CURRENTLY IN THE TOP 10 LIST OF 'MONSTERS TO TREMBLE OVER'.

WE'RE TOLD THAT WE REALLY, REALLY MUST DEVELOP BETTER NUCLEAR CAPABILITY TO DEFEND AGAINST RUSSIA...BARELY MENTIONING CHINA, CONCENTRATING ON OLD RUSSIA.

[MAINLY BECAUSE RUSSIA'S PUTIN DARED BREATHE A HINT THAT HE JUST MIGHT GO TO A GOLD STANDARD, WHICH WOULD BE THE DEMISE OF THE USA's FIAT CURRENCY. 
WHEN SADDAM HUSSEIN AND LIBYA'S GADDAFI TRIED THE SAME THING, LOOK WHAT THEY GOT!]

"On July 13, 2015, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed entitled "The Fading U.S. Nuclear Deterrent by Robert Monroe", a retired Navy vice admiral and  former director of the Defense Nuclear Agency. The op-ed’s byline is “The next president must restore America’s aging arsenal to face a world of new atomic threats.” Among other things Monroe argues for “an entirely new nuclear-weapons stockpile, including specialized low-yield advanced weapons” and that “military force must be used if necessary” to prevent others from acquiring nuclear weapons."

YEAH, BABY!
BUILD MORE NUKES!
WE NEED NUKES!
NUKES WILL SAVE US!
THE NUKES WE ALREADY HAVE WILL NEVER, NEVER BE ENOUGH!
OHHHH, THE HORROR OF NOT ENOUGH NUKES!

BS, BS, BS!
THE MAN SURELY KNOWS BETTER!  
WHO DOESN'T KNOW THAT RUSSIA'S ARSENAL HAS DETERIORATED BY ABOUT 50%?
SOME SIMPLY "GOT LOST".

 ”The Fading U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,” By Robert R. Monroe is loaded with factual inaccuracies and bad advice for America’s national security policymakers.  As a consequence, Mr. Monroe’s essay is political theater, void of any logical strategic thinking.  Unfortunately, Mr. Monroe targets a vulnerability we all share – fear.   But America should not scare itself into making bad decisions with our finite national defense resources.

Now and for the foreseeable future our nuclear forces are in no danger of failing to provide deterrence against nuclear attack.  Increasingly however, the United States and its allies face a growing panoply of threats including radical Islam, cyber attacks and the consequences of environmental degradation that are immune to nuclear firepower.  
US national security strategy must make balanced investments in defensive capabilities that can address the full spectrum of threats.  Contrary to what Mr. Monroe advocates, defense investments based on a nostalgic preoccupation with the meaningless concept of “nuclear superiority” will weaken America over time and increase our vulnerability to the most likely threats.

Mr. Monroe claims that the “U.S. began a debilitating nuclear freeze” at the end of the Cold War.  This is pure disinformation.  During the 20 years from 1990-2010 the US completed deployment of the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile and the B-2 stealth strategic nuclear bomber and rebuilt the entire Minuteman III land-based nuclear missile force.  Additional upgrades to nuclear command and control and warhead accuracy provided the US with the world’s most capable nuclear force.  It remains that way today.

During this same timeframe Russia’s nuclear capabilities declined precipitously. By 2006, it had 55 percent fewer intercontinental ballistic missiles, 39 percent fewer strategic bombers, and 80 percent fewer ballistic-missile submarines compared to 1990. 
The Russian nuclear arsenal continued its decline until approximately 2010 when its nuclear modernization programs began to come on line and initiate restoration of nuclear capabilities that had been maintained by the Soviet Union.  

China’s nuclear forces with fewer than 250 deployed nuclear warheads remain small compared to the US and Russia which each possess more than 1,500 deployed warheads."      

STAND BACK!
WE'RE GOING TO TRY LOGIC!

"Nuclear weapons did not help secure any meaningful victory in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, or Syria, did not prevent the rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Harem or deter Russia’s actions in Georgia and Ukraine.  Nuclear weapons did not check China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea, or thwart the DPRK’s acquisition and testing of nuclear weapons.  Nuclear weapons cannot give their possessors the ability to prevent or defeat these threats. " 

NO!
<GASP!>
REALLY?
CAN WE REALLY LOOK AT IT THIS WAY AND SEE MORE CLEARLY? 
ONLY IF WE ALLOW OURSELVES THE LOOK!

HOW ABOUT SOME MORE LOGIC?

"The most alarming of Mr. Monroe’s fantasies is his description of nuclear deterrence: “You threaten your adversary with intolerable consequences if he does not comply with your demands. Then, through reinforcing actions, you convince him that you have the will and capability to carry out your threat.” Your threat, of course is mutual nuclear suicide.  These sound like the delusions of General Jack Ripper from the film Dr. Strangelove, or the motto of so many failed empires that have tried to rule the world.

Mr. Monroe also claims “for the past two decades nuclear deterrence has been missing from the U.S. toolbox.”  

Bullocks.  

Nuclear deterrence is a condition that obtains when any nation has the ability to threaten nuclear attack or devastating nuclear retaliation. 

It has never been absent from US strategy since the deployment of nuclear weapons in 1945. 
The delusion to which Mr. Monroe ascribes is that nuclear weapons somehow allow us to reliably influence the decisions of our adversaries.  They can never provide this capability.

Mr. Monroe advocates the production and testing of “an entirely new nuclear-weapons stockpile, including specialized low-yield advanced weapons.”  

Such a course of action will not give America the ability to achieve the outcomes it desires in the world.  

It will most likely encourage other nations to accelerate plans to increase their nuclear arsenals and acquire similar capabilities as some are now doing."

REASONING, LOGICAL REASONING, SOMETHING OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM LONG AGO REMOVED FROM ITS CURRICULUM.
LITTLE JOHNYY MUST NOT BE CAPABLE OF REASON/LOGIC, BECAUSE THEN LITTLE JOHNNY COULD SEE THE ABSOLUTE BULL AND FALLACIES USED BY THE GOVERNING, RULING FEW!

I WOULD NOT BE THE LEAST SURPRISED TO SEE THE NEXT "ADVANCEMENT IN EDUCATION" BE THE SURGICAL BLINDING AND DEAFENING OF ALL AMERICAN STUDENTS.
THAT ALONE WOULD MAKE SOME FEEL SAFER ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LEARNING TO APPLY LOGIC AND SEEING THE LIES FOR WHAT THEY ARE.
[WELL, MAYBE REMOVAL OF FINGERS, TOO, SO NO ONE COULD READ BRAILLE?]

CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

RING A BELL, DOGS SALIVATE, EXPECTING FOOD, THANK YOU, PAVLOV, FOR SHOWING US HOW EASY THAT IS!  

"The world’s nuclear weapons addiction leads only to disaster."

WELL, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, DISASTER MUST HAPPEN, MUSTN'T IT?

WITHOUT ONGOING DISASTER, HOW WOULD FEAR BE THE HANDY TOOL IT IS IN MANIPULATING THE MASSES TO AGREE TO MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR SPENDING TO FUND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX?

WITHOUT DISASTERS, WE MIGHT BE FORCED TO BRING ALL THE TROOPS HOME.
"NEW ROME" DOESN'T LIKE THE IDEA OF PEACE AND TROOP RETURN.
IT SHUDDERS AT THE THOUGHT.

NO, PEACE AND REASON ARE NOT PROFIT-MAKERS!
SANITY AND LOGIC DON'T CLOSE THE STOCK MARKET HIGH ENOUGH.

LOOK INSIDE EVERY "BILL" THAT CONGRESS PUMPS OUT AND FIND THE HIDDEN SPENDING, THE PORK BARREL OF POLITICS.

THE BOYS ON THE HILL FEATHER THEIR NESTS HOWEVER THEY MAY, AND THE HUGE PROFITS FROM DEFENSE CONTRACTS BY SOME OF THE BIG NAMES IN GOVERNMENT DARLINGS MAKE A NICE STOCK PORTFOLIO FOR THOSE AGING SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES IN CASE THEY DON'T FOOL ENOUGH OF THE PEOPLE ENOUGH OF THE TIME TO STAY IN OFFICE UNTIL THEY CROAK!

WE NEED NUCLEAR ANYTHING ABOUT AS MUCH AS WE NEED HOLES DRILLED IN OUR SKULLS OR NAILS DRIVEN UP BOTH NOSTRILS.

SHOULD THE DAY COME THAT WHAT NUKES THE WORLD POWERS HAVE NOW BEGIN TO FLY, WE WON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT HAVING THOUSANDS TO FLY BACK AT ANYONE.

THE FIRST FEW HUNDRED SHOULD ERASE HUMANITY QUITE NICELY FROM THE PLANET, THANKS. 

THE ENSUING NUCLEAR WINTER WOULD FINISH OFF THE REST. 

IT ALL REMINDS ME OF THE LITTLE KID RUNNING WITH SCISSORS...THERE ARE HIS PARENTS CHASING HIM TO KEEP HIM FROM FALLING ON THEM AND KILLING HIMSELF, BUT THE CHILD GLEEFULLY CONTINUES HIS RUN, DELIGHTED WITH THOSE SCISSORS. 

WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE VIGILANT WATCHERS, THE ONES WHO KEPT THE REINS TAUT ON OUR ELECTED SCOUNDRELS.
WE DROPPED THE REINS SOMEWHERE.
BUT WE CAN STILL CATCH THE RUNAWAY HORSE.
FIRST, WE HAVE TO START CHASING IT...THEN BRING IT TO A HALT.

CAN WE STOP THE MADNESS?

ARE WE WILLING TO TRY?