{"id":9789,"date":"2014-03-25T17:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-03-25T17:30:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:30:56","slug":"obama_s_worst_worry_is_a_nuke_in_nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/03\/25\/obama_s_worst_worry_is_a_nuke_in_nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Worst Worry is a Nuke in NYC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: At this joint presser with the Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the Hague, the chief White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl, with a preapproved question, said, “Are you concerned that America\u2019s influence in the world, your influence in the world is on the decline, Mr. President? And in the light of recent developments, do you think Mitt Romney had a point when he said that Russia is America\u2019s biggest geopolitical foe? If not Russia, then who?”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: With respect to Mr. Romney\u2019s assertion that Russia\u2019s our number one geopolitical foe, the truth of the matter is that, you know, America\u2019s got a whole lot of challenges. Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength, but out of weakness.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: They don\u2019t pose the number one national security threat to the United States. I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, man, folks, this is so loaded. I need a few minutes here to dissect this. In the first place, the truth of the matter is, America\u2019s got a whole lot of challenges and Russia is just like a gnat, you know, a Chihuahua chewing at our ankles. Russia is a regional power threatening some of its immediate neighbors, but not out of strength, out of weakness. <\/p>\n

How does it work that you conquer a new country and put them under your rule out of weakness? How does that happen? And if they\u2019re just regional, what the hell are they doing in Venezuela? If they\u2019re just regional, what are they doing in Nicaragua? If they\u2019re just regional, what are they doing in Cuba? If they\u2019re just regional, what are they doing with eyes on Estonia?<\/line><\/p>\n

How is all of this happening out of weakness? How does that work? Well, yeah, it\u2019s a cry for help, because the situation in Russia proper is so bad that Putin has to reach out to other countries to take what he doesn\u2019t have in his own country \u2019cause he\u2019s in such bad shape. Is that how it works? They don\u2019t pose the number one national security threat to the US. Okay, well, who does? The ChiComs? The Iranians? This next line, he says, “I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.” Has he been reading spy novels? I just finished reading three spy novels where that was the plot line. He\u2019s gotta have heard this from somebody. <\/p>\n

A nuke going off in Manhattan. Now presumably that would mean somebody like Al-Qaeda got the nuke and set it off, not the Russians, in Obama\u2019s scenario. So where would Al-Qaeda get a nuke? Or where would they get the material? You would need highly enriched uranium. You would need some plutonium. And if you didn\u2019t have enough of that you would need some beryllium, and you would need some sort of missile type structure to house all of this. You would need all kinds of technical expertise to be able to put all of this together. But you would need to get HU, the highly enriched uranium. You would need 93.5%, you can\u2019t do it with less than that. <\/p>\n