Russia and U.S. Arms Pact Does Nothing To Stop Madmen

By Douglas V. Gibbs

From what I understand, President Obama is working with Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev to try to live up to his campaign pledge of ridding the world of nuclear weapons. Arms control negotiations are said to be moving along, and a treaty in Prague is expected next month that would greatly diminish American and Russian nuclear arsenals.

The new pact is designed to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 1991, which expired in December. This new agreement requires both sides to reduce their warheads and launchers by more than one-quarter.

Once the treaty is signed, the treaty will go to the U.S. Congress for ratification, requiring passage in the United States Senate.

The treaty, however, does not reverse the fact that nuclear weapons exist, and does nothing to control the armaments of radical nations like Iran and North Korea. Obama is using the idiotic mentality of gun-control freaks, figuring that if Russia and the U.S. decreases their arsenal, the other nuclear powers will follow.

Unlikely.

Madmen will still build the bomb, and they will use it. To eliminate our defensive stash of weapons follows in the same mistaken footsteps of Europe during the 1930s. As Britain and France were disarming, Germany was building.

Had Britain and France not disarmed, Hitler's Germany would not have lasted a day against them.

Now we have rising threats from Islam, and North Korea (not to mention China). Yet Obama wishes to decrease our amount of weapons.

Might as well take guns away from store clerks while allowing the criminals full ability to have weapons.

The outcome can only be deadly.

Obama's arms pact is a bad idea. It lessens our ability to defend ourselves, and portrays us in a weak light.

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