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Originally Posted by JCL
You make the assumption that Obama was negotiating with Iran. Obama and other leaders come up with a historic reduction in nuclear stockpiles, and they shouldn't follow through on it because Iran didn't come to the conference? Iran was a subject of the conference, not a negotiatior.
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I never said I had a problem with Obama and the conference. I also don't have a problem when the discussion focuses on responsibly eliminating older "stockpiles" of nuclear weapons. What I have a problem with is the notion of disarmament of nuclear weapons and the US leading the way by example. America is a Superpower because we developed these weapons and continue to be the strongest Nation in the World. Had we decided not to follow the path of peace by mutual destruction and the development of nuclear weapons we might have lost the war and the World would look much different than it does today.
I'm for going with what works and had we taken the Gandhi approach back then we would be speaking German or Japanese. In a perfect world we can feel all warm and fuzzy but until we reach Utopia the United States needs to stay a Superpower.