Arms control treaties always fail in face of cheating

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The Disarmament Illusion Obama pursues arms control treaties; Iran builds the bomb.
President Obama appreciates "teachable moments," so let's all discuss this week's lesson in arms control theory and practice.
The President brought his soaring sermon about "a world without [nuclear] weapons" before the U.N. General Assembly. He called for a new arms control treaty and won Security Council support for a vague resolution on proliferation. On cue yesterday, Iran showed the world what determined rogues think about such treaties. On the evidence of his Presidency so far, Mr. Obama will not let that reality interfere with his disarmament dreams... ****Incredibly, Obama didn't mention the Iranian breach of faith while pushing for generic non-proliferation, seemingly as directed against the Israelis and French as against the Iranians and North Koreans. He didn't mention Iran's lying at all while at the UN although he was aware of this since January 2009 at least. Strangely, it was only at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh that he brought it up and the statements of the UK's Brown and France's Sarkozy were much stronger.****