Posted on 09/27/2009 3:20:18 PM PDT by Steelfish
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
The Disarmament Illusion Obama pursues arms control treaties; Iran builds the bomb.
President Obama appreciates "teachable moments," so let's all discuss this week's lesson in arms control theory and practice.
The President brought his soaring sermon about "a world without [nuclear] weapons" before the U.N. General Assembly. He called for a new arms control treaty and won Security Council support for a vague resolution on proliferation. On cue yesterday, Iran showed the world what determined rogues think about such treaties. On the evidence of his Presidency so far, Mr. Obama will not let that reality interfere with his disarmament dreams.
The disclosure that Iran has a second facility to make bomb-grade fuel, the latest of many Tehran deceptions, isn't exactly surprising. Administration officials say U.S. intelligence has known about the secret underground plant near the city of Qom for years. Iran sought other hidden sites after the Natanz facility was discovered in 2002, and now officials say they suspect there are other facilities too.
The U.S., France and the U.K. yesterday presented detailed evidence about the plant to the International Atomic Energy Agency. They acted after Iran got wind of the U.S. intelligence and sought to pre-empt possible consequences by informing the supposed nuclear watchdog in Vienna about what Tehran called a "pilot plant" for civilian use.
It's not clear why the mullahs even bothered to make that effort. The past decade of international efforts to monitor, control and sanction the Iranian nuclear program is a story of fecklessness. Iran's nuclear weapon efforts started many years ago, but it was exposed by an Iranian opposition group in exile, not by IAEA inspectors who've been allowed in the country since 1992.
Despite this violation of Iran's treaty commitments, the world community has since done nothing to punish...
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The problem with commie libs is that they never think through to the consequences of their “good ideas”. Their thinking and logic is very childish and simpleminded.
Makes a whole lot of sense to me. (/s) North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, and now maybe Brazil and Venezuela get the bomb, and we should cut our stockpile?
parsy, who thinks this is idiotic
Dear Hopeychangers: You imagine a world without nukes and guns. The bad men only imagine a world without you.
Case in point. When Obama unilaterally withdrew from the defense of Eastern Europe this month I’ll bet that at least half a dozen western countries started considering their own nuclear programs.
Yup! It’s childish to think that if we give up all of our nukes, everyone else will do the same.
My problem with the headline is that over 50,000,000 people did not vote for a global general...even those that voted for Obama didn’t vote for that either...He is a global joke even worse joke to others than Clinton was...European leaders laughed at Clinton also....
That’s still a price we ALL pay for the lemmings who gave us 0
Yep, we are all paying the price for something we didn’t want....
I hope our country survives this Marxist Appeasement Weasel and Surrender Monkey.
This ISTM BillyJeff not just idiotic,.....
......... It's Intentional International Enslavement.
Who in their semi lucid mind would suddenly ditch (slash crash and burn) their monetary system if it was sound and competent?
Now on the other hand if your current currency has the value of the Zimbabwe (less than toilet paper), you wouldn't have any complaints at all.
Hyper inflation is theft of yours and most everyone else's life's work. What do you call working for free? It's either a volunteer or?
Did you volunteer? Plus it is an automatic turn to change monetary systems.
And so they play us thrice again since WW sold out our financial fiscal control to the efFed, and EffedDR's partially successful conversion to communism.
Whut happened the last two times they trashed our monetary system?
War (Wordl that is) is most certainly coming soon,.
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