Barack Obama's Nuclear Naivete

IBD ^ | October 2, 2007

[Kaslin]

Leadership: Barack Obama says if elected president he'll implement a plan to eradicate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth. A beautiful dream, but you might as well try to abolish all non-nuclear weapons.

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It was meant to sound new, but it's an idea we have heard from pacifists for many decades — "No nukes!"

Democratic candidate Obama, introduced by John F. Kennedy speechwriter Ted Sorenson at DePaul University in Chicago, unveiled his "Kennedyesque" plan to bring JFK's original efforts to limit nuclear weapons proliferation to its logical conclusion.

On the fifth anniversary of his speech opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Illinois senator proposed a global ban on the production of fissile material for weapons and a series of other restrictions.

Ivo H. Daalder of the Brookings Institution, Obama's Dutch-born senior foreign policy adviser and a former Clinton National Security Council member, said the senator was challenging "the conventional thinking on nuclear weapons in Washington . . . that we need to keep nuclear weapons for all sorts of contingencies."

[ChiMark]

Golly! Is’nt he the greatest?

[jimmyo57]

Wasn’t that what Superman IV was about?

[goldstategop]

We do need to keep nuclear weapons for contingencies. A nuclear-free world will never happen. I don't believe in unilateral disarmament.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Realism]

Sure, damn things are expensive to make, store and secure, lets get rid of them globally.

Oh yeah one thing, who's going to enforce this awesome global initiative, the UN? (Get out of here.....)

[Enchante]

Someone please tell this drooling leftist moron that this “plan” is the perfect way to disarm the USA in the face of some of the most dangerous enemies we’ve ever faced. Does Obama Hussein really think that any kind of treaty can keep the most ruthless powers on earth from producing nuclear weapons? Does this pea-brain lawyer really think that countries like Russia and China, never mind Iran, Syria, North Korea, not to mention Pakistan and other potential jihad states, would really abide by such commitments? No, all that Obama would accomplish would be to make the USA and other western democracies gravely vulnerable to the worst elements in humanity.