Oh, yes. The neo-Soviets in Russia have given Chavez a $2 billion line of credit toward weapons purchases, too. Nuclear non-proliferation is dead.
Krauthammer's Take [NRO Staff]
From last night's Fox News All-Stars.
On Obama presiding over the U.N. Security Council and passing a nuclear non-proliferation resolution:
What did he accomplish? Nothing. This is really quite surreal. As we speak, the Iranians are spinning thousands of centrifuges and developing uranium. The American delegate at IAEA announces that Iran already has enough uranium to construct a bomb. It's testing its missiles, flouting all U.N. resolutions, as are the North Koreans.
And the response of America?
The president of the United States — on camera, of course — presides over a perfectly useless meeting of the Security Council and passes a perfectly useless resolution airily declaring the end of nuclear weapons.
Look, my model U.N. in high school was more realistic than this Security Council. The resolution, as you pointed out, isn't even binding.
And the problem is that the assumption of Obama is that the reason that these rogue states are pursuing nukes is because we have not led by example — rather than the obvious, that they want the prestige and the power of having a nuke.
In fact, the '80's and the '90's, when we radically reduced our arsenals, is precisely when Iran and [North] Korea launched their ambitions and nuclear programs….
The non-proliferation policy served us well for 50 years. Now the genie is out of the bottle and isn't going back inside. We need to recognize that we will live in a world with nuclear-armed tyrants who hate us. We need to prepare for that: missile defenses, air defenses, and secure borders.