{"id":49815,"date":"2023-03-28T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49815"},"modified":"2023-03-28T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:34:56","slug":"a-very-important-policy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49815","title":{"rendered":"A Very Important Policy Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Scott Johnson at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/03\/field-this.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Line Blog<\/a> posted an article about a rather subtle change in American foreign policy recently voiced by Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Foundation for the Defense of Democracy\u2019s Andrea Stricker tuned in to Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley\u2019s testimony before the House Appropriations Committee this past Thursday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/analysis\/2023\/03\/24\/administration-would-tolerate-iran-nuclear-weapons\/\">Stricker quotes Milley<\/a> stating that the United States \u201cremains committed, as a matter of policy, that Iran will not have a fielded nuclear weapon.\u201d Stricker observes that this statement, as well as a similar comment by Milley last September, suggests the Biden administration is prepared to tolerate nuclear weapons in Iran\u2019s hands provided the weapon is not \u201cfielded\u201d \u2014 that is \u2014 deployed. Perhaps it depends on the meaning of \u201cfielded.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Stricker reminds readers that a shift in U.S. policy from one of nuclear weapons denial to one of preventing deployment \u2014 but not their production \u2014 would reflect a major departure. President Joe Biden has said repeatedly that the United States will \u201cnever allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon\u201d on his watch. Former President Trump insisted, \u201cIran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.\u201d Former President Obama declared, \u201cIran will never be permitted to develop a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>I take it that it\u2019s all blather and that the United States is okay with Iran\u2019s development and deployment of nuclear weapons. It would surely be more hazardous to act after Iran has fielded such weapons. The Milley modification, if that is what it is, should probably be clarified, not that the clarification would be believable either.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link above to read the entire article. This is NOT good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Scott Johnson at Power Line Blog posted an article about a rather subtle change in American foreign policy recently voiced by Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley. The article reports: The Foundation for the Defense of Democracy\u2019s Andrea Stricker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16401,16402,246,16403,1185,8203],"class_list":["post-49815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrea-stricker","tag-foundation-for-the-defense-of-democracy","tag-iran","tag-joint-chiefs-chairman-mark-milley","tag-nuclear-weapon","tag-power-line-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49816,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49815\/revisions\/49816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}