Barack Obama's Naive No Nukes Policy Shortsighted, Historically Ignorant

You know, it was pretty awful timing for Barack Obama to announce a no nuke policy on the same day he threw a limp wrested baseball no where near home plate. Bad timing, but sadly apt.

Obama is eat up with the naïve notion many progressive utopianisms have that getting rid of weapons will make for a peaceful world. As if sticks, stones, and fists will not still exist. Or, more importantly, rogue regimes will stop attempting to build or otherwise acquire weapons of mass destruction.

All Obama has managed to do is make the United states look weak. I do not know if his nuclear policy is part of his plan to improve American image abroad or appease peaceniks guilty over the United States’ military supremacy, but either way, he is selling us down the river.

Maybe symbolically, I will discount that. We have been reluctant to use tactical nukes because of their destructive power. The only absolute scenario we have ever declared would be if another country launched a preemptive nuclear strike, then we had the doomsday MAD strategy. I am also certain if we were attacked with a WMD, public outcry demanding aresponse would put yet another typical Obama experitation date on the new policy.

Yet I do not appreciate the two rationales Obama likely has for his decision. One, the United States needs to be willing to do everything in its power to defend itself. No matter how grim the scenario, we need a plan to win. Second, I assume Jeremiah Wright’s fiery sermon that the chickens came home to roost after Hiroshima and Nagasaki still resonate with him. I have even kicked around the idea he bowed to the Japanese emperor as an act of penance.

If Wright words are indeed part of his motivation, then Obama has not properly examined the morality of the use of nuclear weapons. Would the world have been better off had Japan won the war? No. Would more lives have been lost in an armed invasion of the country than in the bombing of two cities? Yes, millions more. Dropping those bombs was tragic, necessary, and--yes--merciful, when viewed honestly. The fact the bombs weredropped at all cannot be viewed as a immoral act in light ofreality.

Therefore, I disagree vehemently with the idea of taking their use off the table. Obama has made a very big mistake here. Yet another in a long series that prove he is too naïve to be president.