President Obama is more worried about a nuclear terror attack targeting New York City than he is about Russias territorial ambitions, he said Tuesday. Russias actions are a problem, Obama said Tuesday in The Hague, Netherlands, after the third meeting of the international Nuclear Security Summit. But the Russians dont pose the No. 1 national security threat to the United States, the President said. I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan. Even though Russian President Vladimir just completed the controversial annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, Obama pooh-poohed Russias prowess. Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors — not out of strength, but out of weakness, Obama said. Obama was responding to statements by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who told CBS on Sunday he was right when he warned two years ago that Russia was America’s top geopolitical foe. The Department of Homeland Security spends about $20 million per year to protect New York from terrorism threats. Obamas naiveté with regards to Russia and his faulty judgment about Russias intentions and objectives has led to a number of foreign policy challenges that we face, Romney said Sunday. During the presidential campaign, Obama argued that Al Qaeda posed the biggest threat to America, telling Romney, The Cold Wars been over for 20 years. Anti-terrorism officials consider the detonation of a traditional nuclear device in a major U.S. city the nations worst-case terror scenario. To combat the threat in New York, the Department of Homeland Security has spent roughly $20 million per year in the metropolitan region on a pilot program that fields fixed and mobile radiation detectors throughout the area.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:54:22 +0000
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