Sunday, April 12, 2009

Eloquence or flatulence? The closer you get...

North Korean rocket launch came just hours before a major Obama speech in Prague on nuclear disarmament, about the morally-compromised U.S. "As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act."

"Rarely has a presidential speech been so immediately and transparently divorced from reality," said the Wall St Journal. As North Korea's missile launch made plan, decades of treaties have failed to stop bad actors from pursuing nukes. Obama thinks that if the U.S. simply gives up its own weapons, it will have the "moral authority" to persuade others to do so. But the "most conspicuous anti-proliferation victories in recent decades" were Israel's strike against Saddam Hussein's nuclear plant and America's removal of Saddam altogether.

The biggest threat to our national security is our naive president, said William Kristol in The Washington Post. In his Prague speech, Obama put the U.S. on a "trajectory" toward "a world without nuclear weapons." That only makes sense if the world miraculously turned into a place "without war or without threats of war." Good luck with that. "The danger is that the allure of a world without nuclear weapons can be a distraction--even an excuse for not acting against real nuclear threats."

A more immediate risk, said Michael Tomasky in the London Guardian, ***The Guardian! ***is the notion that the world's problems can be solved by Obama's personal charm.

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