Posted on 04/06/2009 5:09:54 AM PDT by reaganaut1
PRAGUE — Hours after North Korea’s missile test, President Obama on Sunday called for new United Nations sanctions and laid out a new approach to American nuclear disarmament policy — one intended to strengthen the United States and its allies in halting proliferation.
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Mr. Obama said that his administration would “reduce the role of nuclear weapons” in its national security strategy, and would urge other countries to do the same. He pointed to the agreement he reached last week with President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia to begin negotiations on reducing warheads and stockpiles, and said the two countries would try to reach an agreement by the end of the year. He also promised to aggressively pursue American ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which in the past has faced strong opposition in Congress.
It is a strategy based on the idea that if the United States shows it is willing to greatly shrink the size of its atomic arsenal, ban nuclear testing and cut off the worldwide production of bomb material, reluctant allies and partners around the world will be more likely to rewrite nuclear treaties and enforce sanctions against North Korea and Iran.
In his speech, he said North Korea’s missile test illustrated “the need for action, not just this afternoon at the U.N. Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons.”
“Rules must be binding,” he said. “Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.”
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AIT,
Elections have consequences, and not just in the United States. Other governments have pegged him correctly as a weakling and will act in their own best interests.
Can’t we send him and his equally dangerous, nutty wife packing sooner?
well, at least the guy is consistent. His nuclear policy is the same as his gun policy...
... if you outlaw nuclear weapons, only outlaws will have nuclear weapons.
I think we've discovered a new motto for America.
Actually, it is just an old motto America rejected centuries ago.
How's that 'change' working out for us, folks?
You've nailed it.
Devoid of reality.
Well, if you disarm yourself, how do you enforce rules and punish violators who refuse to disarm themselves?
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