Posted on 09/03/2009 11:35:33 AM PDT by RobinMasters
WASHINGTON – Five months after President Barack Obama, with great fanfare, called for a world free of nuclear weapons, a crucial step toward that goal is running into resistance.
There is little indication Obama will have the votes he needs for a cornerstone of his nonproliferation efforts: Senate ratification of a nuclear test ban treaty. If Obama can't get the treaty approved, he probably will have a hard time persuading the rest of the world to rein in nuclear weapon programs.
Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, an advocacy group based in Washington, said the Obama administration needs to "work faster and harder" to build support in the Senate.
The absence of progress comes as a backdrop to the special U.N. session to be chaired by Obama later this month. The summit Sept. 24 on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's annual ministerial session will seek broad consensus on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
Political realities have made focusing on the test ban treaty difficult. Obama's top priorities these days are passing a massive health care overhaul and overcoming violence in Afghanistan. On arms control, his administration is now focused on another goal: securing a successor to a bilateral treaty with Russia that expires in December.
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Actually, if you had to pick one goal that has zero possibility of happening...this is the one. I don’t think he has a single Democrat senator standing up to make this their personal project.
But we have to lead by example...First we kill all industry in America, then kill all private businesses, then do away with all our nukes, scuttle our aircraft carriers, B1,B2 & B52 bombers and the rest of the world will follow us because by then they will love us and want to be like us. Obama's biggest problem is when to bring our troops home. He really wants to get his civilian defense army ready before that happens so they can disarm our armed forces when arrive home.
This would be like trying to ban dishwashers(machines) or tooth paste.
Cat’s outta the bag, Mr. President. Too late, but thank God we got nukes first.
This idea really does prove two things: 1) Mr. Obama is naive and 2) Mr. Obama is naive.
3. FUBO is either an enemy agent or a friggin but VERY dangerous idiot ... my guess would be both
"And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles - when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States.
Great film. Better book.
Once the knowledge is out there on how to make something it will never go away. Guns will never disappear, nukes won't either and neither will any other type of explosive. What will happen is that sooner or later a more powerful weapon will be invented and in order to keep from being annihilated we will have to build one also.
Way of the world, from the time some guy picked up a sharp rock and tied a stick to it, one weapon led to inventions of others.
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