Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation? WHat a pipe dream. BHO is living in a fantasy world, where Pakistan has been the heavy proliferator of nuke tech to the DPRK, who in turn, provided Iran and Syria with nuke tech. Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation? WHat a pipe dream. BHO is living in a fantasy world, where Pakistan has been the heavy proliferator of nuke tech to the DPRK, who in turn, provided Iran and Syria with nuke tech.Hey, BO, here’s a thought: why don’t you just revive the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Your idea has about the same likelhood of success, and at least Kellogg-Briand was more encompassing.
"...The narcissist rarely admits to a weakness, ignorance, or deficiency. He filters out information to the contrary – a cognitive impairment with serious consequences. Narcissistic are likely to unflinchingly make inflated and inane claims about their sexual prowess, wealth, connections, history, or achievements.
All this is mighty embarrassing to the narcissist's nearest, dearest, colleagues, friends, neighbours, or even mere on-lookers. The narcissist's tales are so patently absurd that he often catches people off-guard. Behind his back, the narcissist is derided and mockingly imitated. He fast makes a nuisance and an imposition of himself in every company.
But the narcissist's failure of the reality test can have more serious and irreversible consequences. Narcissists, unqualified to make life-and-death decisions often insist on rendering them. Narcissists pretend to be economists, engineers, or medical doctors – when they are not. But they are not con-artists in the classic, premeditated sense. They firmly believe that, though self-taught at best, they are more qualified than even the properly accredited sort. Narcissists believe in magic and in fantasy. They are no longer with us.....
We are so screwed.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero - Roman Statesman
Speech in the Roman Senate - 42 BC
Idiocy
Hey, quit gripin’, this worked great in the past! The US advocated the scrapping of naval vessels and the cancellation of various nations’ plans to build next-gen warships. And most major powers went along with it. That was back in the 1920s or ‘30s, and the only little speed bump we’ve had since was WWII. Geez, ya whiners.