Nice Things to Say About: Obama, Chrétien, Clark, Broadbent & Axworthy
I squirm at the thought as much as any realpolitik-minded foreign policy sophist, but President Obama has made a real and positive move on global defense and security policy in the form of today’s nuclear non-proliferation treaty. What’s more is that Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, Ed Broadbent and Lloyd Axworthy – all doves of a dangerously appeasing bent – endorse this view in today’s Globe and Mail. But try as I might, it’s hard to see fault in a nuclear non-proliferation treaty that – in Hillary Clinton’s own words – is in the spirit of Ronald Reagan’s policy of “trust, but verify”.
On the other side of the coin, the Russians are deceptive in their seriousness about horizontal non-proliferation when it comes to Iran and North Korea, and perhaps this should have been included in the treaty, but such negotiations are fraught with too many dynamics to make a serious criticism of the treaty on this front. None-the-less, it is becoming more than apparent that if the United States is serious about preventing a mullahist-nuclear Iran, sanctions – that would necessitate full Russian and Chinese cooperation – are simply not going to happen in any meaningful way. Both the Russians and Chinese are adept at playing a game that ingratiates themselves to the Western allies, while at the same time playing good-cop with rouge regimes.
Treaties like today’s that control the vertical proliferation of nuclear weapons deserve a cheer, but decisive and undaunted action is needed to control the horizontal proliferation of these weapons. Reducing the capacity of the United States and Russia to destroy the world over with a few less salvos is all fine and great, but as the cliché goes: it is the wrong the man with a single bomb that is the real threat to peace.
March 26, 2010
Tags: Barack Obama, Ed Broadbent, Foreign Policy, Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, John F Kennedy, Kennedy, Lloyd Axworthy, National Security, Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Reagan, Ronald Reagan Posted in: Blog Content
4 Responses
Being blown to bits by the nuclear bomb is nothing. It’s GLOBAL WARMING that scares me.
I,ll take nuclear anytime TONY..Nuclear tells the truth,GW is a disgusting scam and people who worship that BS are doing more damage to the world than a nuclear bomb.
Bert, I hope you realize that I was being sarcastic about global warming and I agree with you 100% about the damage being done to the world by these idiots.
hmmm, the quick death or the slow and deceptive one, which does one choose?
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