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April 7, 2009

Obama naive on nuclear disarmament

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As Dennis Prager's writes in his piece today, Barack Obama's assumption that "countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them" - is naive and dangerous. It's totally inconceivable that every nation would agree to it, and a nuclear disarmed America is an invitation to disaster:

"The basic bargain is sound: countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them." -- President Barack Obama, Prague, April 6, 2009

As far as nuclear weapons are concerned, the President of the United States wants America to disarm: "Countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament."

It is hard to imagine a more destructive goal. A nuclear disarmed America would lead to massive and widespread killing, more genocide, and very possibly the nuclear holocaust worldwide nuclear disarmament is meant to prevent.

There is nothing moral, let alone realistic, about this goal.

Here is an analogy. Imagine that the mayor of a large American city announced that it was his goal to have all the citizens of his city disarm -- what could be more beautiful than a city with no weapons? This would, of course, ultimately include the police, but with properly signed agreements, vigorously enforced, and violators of the agreement punished, it would remain an ideal to pursue.

One has to assume that most people would regard this idea as, at the very least, useless. There would be no way to ensure that bad people would disarm; and if the police disarmed, only bad people would have weapons.

The analogy is virtually precise -- but only if you acknowledge that America is the world's policeman. To idealists of the left, however, the notion of America as the world's policeman is both arrogant and misguided. A strengthened "world community" -- as embodied by the United Nations - should be the world's policeman.

And as Dennis points out, Obama's naivete is made all the more evident in light of N. Korea's recent missile test - in which Iran participated and the UN did absolutely nothing.

[...] As for states like Iran and North Korea, they have already violated agreements regarding nuclear weapons. What would prompt them to do otherwise in a world where America got weaker? United Nations sanctions? And why would Russia and China even agree to them?

... there would be no way to prevent rogue scientists from selling materials and know-how to terrorists.

The result of this left-wing fantasy of worldwide nuclear disarmament would simply be that those who illegally acquired or made but one nuclear weapon would be able to blackmail any nation.

What any president of the United States should aspire to is: 1). to keep America the strongest country in the world militarily (as well as economically, but that is not the question on the table); 2) to destroy those individuals and organizations that seek nuclear weapons so as to kill as many innocent people as possible; and 3) remain the world's policeman. These aims cannot be achieved if America aims to disarm.

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To the idea that Barack Obama is being naive about all the nations of the world disarming all of their nuclear weapons and nations like Iran and N. Korea being trusted to do likewise, I'd have to add that he is delusional, clueless, and a radical leftist with a bent to destroy the defenses of the most powerful nation on earth.

And this is the guy that America elected as president? Good job, America (sic)!

Related:
Yes, We Can . . . Disarm? (... there is no evidence that U.S. nuclear arms reductions have ever inspired others to do the same. All of the world's more recent nuclear powers -- Israel, India, Pakistan -- acquired their weapons well after such talks began, more than 40 years ago.)

BAM BLINKS (The idea that nonproliferation treaties would halt Iran's quest for a bomb or North Korea's drive for an effective delivery system borders on lunacy. ... Worse, Tehran and Pyongyang might see Obama's enthusiasm for such treaties as weakness -- perhaps correctly.)

Posted by Hyscience at April 7, 2009 7:55 AM

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