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Posted on 07/04/2009 2:27:02 PM PDT by Steelfish
Youthful Ideals Shaped Obama Goal of Nuclear Disarmament
In college, Barack Obama wrote about nuclear arms. As a senator, he viewed a deactivated Russian nuclear missile.
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: July 4, 2009
In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of a nuclear free world.
He railed against discussions of first- versus second-strike capabilities that suit the military-industrial interests with their billion-dollar erector sets, and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.
The student was Barack Obama, and he was clearly trying to sort out his thoughts. In the conclusion, he denounced the twisted logic of which we are a part today and praised student efforts to realize the possibility of a decent world.
But his article, Breaking the War Mentality, which only recently has been rediscovered, said little about how to achieve the utopian dream.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Yes, I do remember - and Obama knocked it - now he is planning on doing the same thing.
McCain was still the worst candidate we’ve ever had.
Did you notice in the movie “I am Legend” that the woman who invents the “cancer vaccine” looks like HRC?
wrong. You don’t know what the plan was. McCain’s plan was endorsed by the CATO institute.
...and a big part of that has been WHICH groups have immigrated into the country over the past few years.
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