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Originally Posted by Jebediah
 I certainly have to disagree with that. Human bungling being what it is I don't trust ANYBODY with TEH BOMB. Not the US, not Iran, not North Korea. |
Then we apply realities to that principle. An Iran that is not threatened would then have a strong reform movement that was opposed to nuclear bombs. An India that did not have a friend in George Jr then would not have uranium to build more bombs. A Pakistan that was treated accordingly would be punished - not rewarded - for proliferating nuclear bomb technology throughout the world. A Turkey would not have so much to fear - and not start a nuclear program. And a North Korea that once negotiated away their nuclear program in exchange for short term economic assistance and long term relationships with the world has now been forced back into a nuclear program - complete with proof solid that their extremists were right: that the world wants to destroy N Korea.
What could have been a safer world as a result of containment has now been converted into a world where more countries must now want and need nuclear weapons. This traceable to a George Jr administration who suddenly made the world unstable by advocating preemption, undermining reform and promoting extremists in those 'enemy' countries (the axis of evil speech), and even intentionally undermining what makes the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty work.
Want to make the world more nuclear? Do what George Jr has done - from his 'axis of evil' to even giving India desperately needed uranium with no strings attached.