Obama Asleep at the Helm

[From Article]
"The report reminded me of the CBS News reporter who, working the overnight and monitoring the wires, saw the first report in 1957 that the Soviet Union had launched the first satellite, Sputnik. He called the rocket launch site at Cape Canaveral for a reaction. "We're all asleep here!" a rocket scientist replied, according to lore. They certainly were. A year later NASA was born.
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Ronald Reagan mused about in his office 25 years ago. "Man has never had a weapon he didn't use," he said, to a handful of aides. If you develop the atom bomb, it will be used, as it was. If man, in his darkness, can develop and deploy nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, they will be used, too."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704312104575299082391565318.html

JUNE 11, 2010
'We Are Totally Unprepared'
Nine years after 9/11, a chilling complacency about WMD attacks
Peggy Noonan
Wall Street Journal