Yet another international summit, this time devoted to nuclear proliferation!
Only, not so much.
Nuclear proliferation by terrorists is the number one security problem facing the US, says our President.
Nuclear proliferation by those actually having nuclear weapons is not on the agenda.
The nuclear arms races in South Asia and the Middle East are a far greater threat to the US than what a handful of terrorists might do.
We don’t really have the capacity to put the brakes on India, Pakistan, Iran, or Israel if one or more of their leaders decide that a nuclear exchange is the only way to maintain national survival.
And yes, arming for annihilation makes no more sense today than it did in 1945.
What is the point of these meetings, which never achieve anything of substance?
Gorilla answers: “To be seen to be beating swords into plowshares, while behind the curtain the plowshares get deadlier!”
Tags: nuclear proliferation, Obama