Friday, December 9, 2011

TPN—Judson Phillips: Merry Christmas Comrade

Barack Obama is in the Christmas mood. He has just given a major Christmas present. Who did he give it to? Well, you can be sure it was not America. Obama gave it to Iran and by extension to the Chinese and to the Russians.

Obama has given our enemies some of our most sophisticated technology.


Five days ago, a super secret RQ-170 Sentinel Drone went down in Iran. If the government knows how the drone went down, they are not saying.

The RQ-170 looks like a smaller version of a B-2 bomber. It has special paint and materials that make it difficult to detect by radar. It has sophisticated reconnaissance technology on board. And it has the guidance system that other RQ-170’s use and presumably many of our other advances unmanned aerial vehicles also use.


According to press reports, the RQ-170 was programmed to find a place to do a controlled landing if it lost contact with its controller. That is apparently what happened here.

This opens a lot of questions. First, this is extremely sophisticated and sensitive technology. The idea of doing a soft landing is a great idea if you are testing the drone in America. When you are in the hostile world, why is this done? Why wasn’t the drone programmed to crash itself if it lost contact with its controller? Why wasn’t there some type of self-destruct device onboard to destroy the drone before it could be captured?

Those are all important questions, but they have nothing to do with Obama giving our enemies a great gift.

When the drone went down, several options were discussed in the administration to either retrieve the drone or destroy it. Obama, who just yesterday invoked his alleged toughness by reminding people that he allegedly ordered the mission on Bin Laden, chose to do nothing.


CONTINUED:http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/merry-christmas-comrade

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