Sarah Palin, "Obama Foreign Policy Moment" Outrage

Dear Sarah, You wrote a Facebook note this morning with a double entendre use of WTF (the "usual" vs Winning The Future) in your title.

This is a brilliant analysis, but I hope you don't think you need to double entendre to get attention of those who normally don't read what you have to say. As for me, I want your use of this acronym to mean Winning The Future. Decorum is decorum. Being relevant to our country as a "leader" requires the judgment to not use language that is offensive in public... unless you only want to be relevant to those who think it's okay to do so. If you are tough enough, you don't need to do it this way IMHO.

Your excellent insight into Obama's giving away our missile defense secrets to Russia with the hope that Russia will "like us, really like us" shows the error of his ways-- whether he is (1) an evil person attempting to undermine the USA and its traditional system of capitalistic success, or (2) if he is a misguided naive idealog taking our country down the road to perdition. In what life could we imagine anyone getting away with giving our military secrets to another country--much less our one time mortal enemy--much less our PRESIDENT via legislation--without immediate and swift blowback by our Country's citizens? If ever there were a reason for outrage, this is it!

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Another “WTF” Obama Foreign Policy Moment
by Sarah Palin on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 7:16am

As Governor I fought the Obama Administration’s plans to cut funds for missile defense in Alaska. So imagine how appalled and surprised I was to read this article by former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, appropriately titled “Giving Away the Farm,” concerning President Obama’s latest bizarre actions relating to missile defense.

President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can’t buy off Russia. And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability. What happens if Russia gives this technology (or sells it!) to other countries like Iran or China? After all, as Woolsey points out, Russia helped Iran with its missile and nuclear programs. Or what happens if an even more hardline leader comes to power in the Kremlin?

We tried buying off the Kremlin with technologies in the 1970s. That policy was a component of “detente,” and the hope was that if we would share our technologies with them, they would become more peaceful. Things, of course, didn’t work out that way. The Kremlin took western technologies and embarked on a massive military building program. History teaches that peace comes from American military strength. And a central component of that has always been technological superiority. Why would President Obama even dream of giving this away?

Members of Congress saw how foolish President Obama’s gambit was, so they put a section in the defense appropriation bill that specifically forbids the federal government from spending money to share these technologies with the Kremlin. President Obama actually threatened to veto the defense appropriation bill over this section of the law! Fortunately, the House passed the bill with a veto-proof majority, a whopping 322 to 96. Attention now turns to the Senate.

Why is it that President Obama seems to work so hard to give things to our enemies, while at the same time asking friends and allies like Israel to make sacrifices?

During these tough economic times when we are facing massive deficits and a competitive global economy, does President Obama really want to give away technologies that the American taxpayer paid lots of money to develop? Giving away our missile defense secrets won’t make us safer. What it will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with ourselves. Russia gets access to our technologies, and we are forced to spend even more money because of the need to stay ahead. Does this make sense to you? Me neither. File this under “WTF.”

- Sarah Palin