Posted on 09/26/2009 7:10:22 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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, much less stop, Iran's nuclear program.
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In an interview with Time magazine this week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad didn’t sound overly concerned, saying that if the U.S. mentioned the previously secret facility, it “simply adds to the list of issues to which the United States owes the Iranian nation an apology over.” Following the violent protests this summer in response to Iran’s fraudulent presidential elections, Mr. Ahmadinejad has kept power but looks both weaker and more ruthless. He makes explicit threats against Israel and he engaged in more Holocaust denial at the U.N. this week.
Meantime, the U.S. and its allies dream. Mr. Obama used his global forum this week not to rally the world to stop today’s nuclear rogues but to offer lovely visions of disarmament in some distant future. In the bitter decades of the Cold War, we learned the hard way that the only countries that abide by disarmament treaties are those that want to be disarmed. It’s becoming increasingly, and dangerously, obvious that Mr. Obama wasn’t paying attention.
Obama lives in a DANGEROUS dream world.
May God help U.S.!
Obama wants equal opportunity for poor nations. So he thinks the “less fortunate” should have nukes to balance the power against the big mean US and British Imperialism.
It’s all about peaceful endings isn’t it? /sarc
A lot of people and organizations owe the administration of George W. Bush a huge apology. And the best way to express that apology would be to heap burning coals of shame on the heads of those who published all those BS reports that claimed Iran was out of the nuclear weapons race.
I suggest we go on with our lives and not spend much time waiting for this to happen.
Amen!
All I could think about this week when Zero kept talking about disarmament and no nuclear weapons - was how happy he was making all those communists who for so long have wanted America do get rid of its nuclear weapons so that we would be defenseless against (the old USSR) Russia, China, and soon Iran and Venezuela and Brazil....if they get what they are now talking about achieving.
Back then it was just the USSR and China.
And all I could think wss those blasted, Godless, anti-freedom, anti-American, anti-human being, communists have won, haven’t they?
The people Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher saw so clearly and stood down so strongly have ,,,,,,won.....
It is more than sickening.
A lot of people had better be hitting their knees every night praying to whatever God they recognize, thanking that Deity for former President's Reagan and Bush (both) and their support for Missile Defense. We had all better pray that obama-the-naive does not further disarm us in the face of a growing threat from our enemies.
Well, the cat’s out the door now. With Brazil’s Vice President openly calling for nuclear armament, the Iranians developing Nuclear weapons, North Korea, Pakistan and other states seeking to join or joining the Nuclear club use of Nuclear weaponry in state level warfare is inevitable. Did the South Africans ever get rid of all their Nuclear weaponry? Israel, Pakistan, India, North Korea, Russia, United States, United Kingdom, France, China and who knows how many others now, looks like we all might need to dust off those bomb shelter plans again.
Better the wisdom of the generation which founded America:
"The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balane would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside . . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them . . . the weak will become prey to the strong." - Thomas Paine (1727-1809)
Sorry! Of course, it should read, “The same balance would . . . .”
save yer energy, once we start disarming, its gonna be pretty quick unless you are away from a major city...
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