All The Wrong Examples
Believe it or not, John Kerry actually managed to flesh out a bit more of his foreign policy platform this week, and it’s looking more Carterite all the time.
In essence, he wants to trot the old “détente” paradigm out of mothballs – you know, the one that almost got us incinerated and/or conquered by the Soviet Union until Ronald Reagan got elected in just about the nick of time to rebuild our strategic nuclear deterrent, turn things around, and send the Evil Empire to the ashheap of history – and apply it to two far less rationalist regimes, Iran and North Korea, on the grounds that “if Iran and North Korea have a history of dealing in bad faith it's because we Americans aren't being cooperative enough.” And this “cooperation” would include our providing the mullahs “fresh nuclear fuel…already halfway along the enrichment process toward being weapons-usable,” according to Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. “With sophisticated and hidden enrichment capabilities of the type we know Iran already has, the country could be within days of having a bomb core were it to seize and divert the reactor fuel.”
Carter and Clinton gave North Korea its nuclear weapons program. Now Kerry wants to give Tehran the same gift.
This is friggin’ insane.
No wonder the Dems would rather obsess over the President’s National Guard service.
In essence, he wants to trot the old “détente” paradigm out of mothballs – you know, the one that almost got us incinerated and/or conquered by the Soviet Union until Ronald Reagan got elected in just about the nick of time to rebuild our strategic nuclear deterrent, turn things around, and send the Evil Empire to the ashheap of history – and apply it to two far less rationalist regimes, Iran and North Korea, on the grounds that “if Iran and North Korea have a history of dealing in bad faith it's because we Americans aren't being cooperative enough.” And this “cooperation” would include our providing the mullahs “fresh nuclear fuel…already halfway along the enrichment process toward being weapons-usable,” according to Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. “With sophisticated and hidden enrichment capabilities of the type we know Iran already has, the country could be within days of having a bomb core were it to seize and divert the reactor fuel.”
Carter and Clinton gave North Korea its nuclear weapons program. Now Kerry wants to give Tehran the same gift.
This is friggin’ insane.
No wonder the Dems would rather obsess over the President’s National Guard service.
posted by JASmius at 12:30 PM
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