Apr
22
Written by:
Dr. Ernie Moore
Thursday, April 22, 2010
That’s exactly what President Obama did. And Mark Steyn, one of National Review’s wordsmiths took him to task for it.
Ah, but Mark, you seem to have forgotten that with this Presidency, image is the pinnacle of power. Forget about reality. Forget about the fact that Iranian lunatics are mouthing about destroying the world, beginning with Israel and then quickly moving on to the United States.
So what?! Words mean nothing to this regime! Well, unless they are spoken by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck or some tea party attender.
The truth is that holding hands with a bunch of foreign leaders and singing Qum ba Ya with Obama leading on the chorus is not a serious meeting. In fact if you look at the days since, there has been very little coming from the White House.
As Steyn said, “Granted that almost all of Obama’s exciting, innovative “change we can believe in” turns out to have been exhumed direct from the sclerotic Seventies to stagger around like a rotting zombie in polyester bell-bottoms from some straight-to-video sequel, there’s still something almost touchingly quaint in the notion of an international summit on nuclear “nonproliferation” in the 21st century. Five years ago, when there was still a chance the world might prevent a nuclear Iran rather than pretending to “contain” it, I remember the bewildered look from a “nonproliferation expert” on a panel I was on after I suggested nonproliferation was a laughably obsolescent frame for this discussion. You could just about enforce nonproliferation back in the Cold War, when the only official nuclear powers were the Big Five at the U.N. Security Council and the entry level for the nuclear club was extremely expensive and technologically sophisticated. Now it’s not. If Pakistan and North Korea can be nuclear powers, who can’t? North Korea’s population is starving. Its GDP per capita is lower than Ghana’s, lower than Zimbabwe’s, lower than Mongolia’s. Which is to say its GDP is all but undetectable.”
You can read the whole piece at NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com
Peres and Sharon
BTW, Israel has already said that they are NOT signing any non-proliferation demands from anybody!
No kidding, since they have not ever even admitted to having acquired nuclear weapons. Of course if you were to read President Shimon Peres’ biography by Michael Bar-Zohar. It is a good read. All the more interesting when you counter juxtapose it with Sharon’s autobiography, Warrior.