Mightier Than The Sword

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, and this may be true. But is that same pen mightier than the nuclear bomb? Probably not. It now appears a foregone conclusion that the presidency of Barack Obama will be marked by a military expansion of America’s enemies. By November, 2012, Iran will have joined the ranks of nuclear nations, North Korea will have markedly increased its nuclear stockpiles and countless terrorist networks will have access to their respective technologies.



Amid this frightening reality, President Obama has used the pen to sign a nuclear proliferation treaty with Russia that limits America’s missile defense technology. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has made it perfectly clear that any attempt by the United States to lessen its vulnerability to nuclear attack, via missile defense, will void the terms of the Russo/American treaty. Medvedev has also affirmed that this treaty has absolutely no bearing on Russia’s tacit approval of Iranian nuclear development.


In addition to the Russian treaty, President Obama has radically shifted American military policy by limiting the scenarios in which the United States would launch a nuclear attack. To summarize: A global guarantee that nothing short of a nuclear attack on American soil would draw a nuclear response. A nation may actually go as far as attacking America with biological or chemical weapons without risk of nuclear reprisal. Although the administration leaves room for exception if the aggressor nation or network is considered to be in non-compliance with the rules of global nuclear watchdog agencies, its affects seem trivial. This said compliance, or lack thereof, would be difficult to determine in the midst of a sarin gas attack or smallpox outbreak in our cities. America is weakening its capability to defend and deter attack as its enemies are strengthening their capabilities to launch them. One must wonder if the pen that wrote this doctrine could withstand the strength of a twig, let alone a sword or a bomb.


With America’s nuclear policy on the road to impotency by the stroke of the President’s pen, I found myself wondering if there was anything more the Obama Administration could do to limit our nation’s capability to defend against nuclear, chemical and/or biological attack. Alas came word of a nuclear summit, brought to us by Barack Obama, proud sponsor of American mediocrity.


This summit, hosted by the United States, will prove a hotbed of Israeli hate-speech and anti-Western values. Many nations, resentful of American exceptionalism, will have their voices heard. President Obama will, most likely, apologize for the past ‘arrogance’ of America and its allies. A whiff of anti-semitism will permeate the air, mixed with an occasional haughty puff of a Hugo Chavez cigar. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be in attendance to witness the verbal blitzkrieg cast on his nation’s right to exist. Perhaps he will be too busy pondering how to prevent the extinction of the state of Israel. As President Obama sits in a room with America’s enemies and writes proclamations of world peace and sugarplum realities, Israel, Poland and other recently abandoned American allies will be all too aware of one simple fact: The bomb, is indeed, mightier than the pen.






Jeremy Pitcoff


Smithtown Republican Committeeman