Thursday, July 17, 2008

Obama warns against "fighting the last war" while boldly surrendering the next one

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama warned Wednesday about the danger of "fighting the last war" as he pledged to focus on emerging nuclear, biological and cyber threats if elected president.

Two goals of his administration would be to secure all loose nuclear material during his first term and to rid the world of nuclear weapons, Obama told an audience before a roundtable discussion at Purdue University.

Obama said adhering to nonproliferation treaties would put pressure on nations such as North Korea and Iran. North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon and Iran has an energy program the Bush administration warns could be a precursor to nuclear weapon development.

"As long as nuclear weapons exist, we'll retain a strong deterrent. But we will make the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons a central element in our nuclear policy," Obama said.


This sounds good, but part of the purpose of a nuclear deterrent is to keep rogue states from developing and deploying / using nukes. If ours are eliminated then every Tom, Dick, and Kim Jong Il will just proceed as fast as they can.

Take into account Obama's pledge to eliminate Unproven Missile Defense That Doesn't Work(tm) and we might as well just staring learning Farsi and Korean and how to bend over for towards Mecca five times a day.

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