Palin hits Obama on another 'WTF' policy (missile defense)

USAToday: Palin hits Obama on another 'WTF' policy (missile defense)
Potential Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin is again using the phrase "WTF" to describe a Barack Obama policy, this one a plan to share missile defense technology with Russia.

"President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift," Palin writes on her Facebook page. "But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can't buy off Russia."

She concludes: "What it will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with ourselves. Russia gets access to our technologies, and we are forced to spend even more money because of the need to stay ahead. Does this make sense to you? Me neither. File this under 'WTF.'"

For all of you techno-phobes out there, WTF is an Internet-driven acronym designed to avoid spelling out the 'F word"; it stands for "what the (expletive)."

Palin -- who may or may not seek the GOP presidential nomination next year -- also used WTF to attack an Obama slogan with the same initials: Winning The Future.

The Obama administration has offered to share some missile defense technology to allay Russian concerns that a system based in Eastern Europe is aimed at them; U.S. officials say the system is designed to ward off missile threats from such rogue states as Iran and North Korea.

After a meeting last month with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Obama said, "We committed to working together so that we can find an approach and configuration that is consistent with the security needs of both countries, that maintains the strategic balance and deals with potential threats that we both share."