Comments on: A magnificent day

By: limewire

limewire — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:35:15 +0000

wow nice info bro.

By: ashimmer

ashimmer — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:54:27 +0000

How absolutely refreshing to hear a thought out argument on any issue relating to current global politics. Well done and keep up the good work.

By: Smirky

Smirky — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:33:13 +0000

Destroying I mean…damn no spell check

By: Smirky

Smirky — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:31:05 +0000

Reducing our Nuclear weapons from having the capability of destruying the earth 7 times over down to only being able to destroy the planet once or twice has got some of the paranoid all up in arms (no pun intended)

By: vintel7

vintel7 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:07:46 +0000

The critics and the carpers and especially the republican peanut gallery are almost always wrong. This is because their emotions of anger, victimhood, etc. obscure their perception. Never trust what a Palin, Beck, or Limbaugh tells you. They sound sincere…they act sincere, yet they are misleading and deceiving the public. Folks with soft heads who have not yet developed critical thinking ability latch onto their every thought. Today is indeed a historical day…regardless of what the carpers say. Today. President Obama and Mr. Medeznev moved the world closer to being safe.

By: pcasinelli

pcasinelli — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:58:59 +0000

Agreed: limiting the number of nuclear weapons possessed by advanced nations is important. It is also important that, with the strengthening of the non-proliferation regime, rogue states like Iran and North Korea are kept away from such weapons. The West already failed in Korea (which has detonated two warheads now) and Iran seems to be on a similar path. Not to mention India (a non-declarared nuclear power) is being allowed by the US to posess nuclear weapons. There needs to be some consistency (and the consistency cannot be “If you are a friend to the US you can have nukes…”

However, most importantly, a world without nuclear weapons would be a terrible world. The only thing that stopped the Soviet Army (which was the largest at the time) from spilling over into West Germany was credible nuclear deterrents. The day those deterrents go away is a very dangerous day…

For more commentary about Obama’s foreign policy see http://www.philosoguy.com/111/india-and- china-and-pakistan/

By: johny2

johny2 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:52:34 +0000

i am quite happy with the deal betwen russia and usa, but i stopped reading after i came to positive trends of democracy and global poverty reduction … what are you talking about???

By: Mr.Snowy

Mr.Snowy — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:44:43 +0000

“There may be no realistic means to get Iran or North Korea to abandon nuclear-weapon efforts.”

Ya, because they want to nuke…US!

By: drewbie

drewbie — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:40:02 +0000

I’d never heard of Gregg Easterbrook until last week, but I like his stuff so far.

I think anyone posting about Obama’s record of truth (or lack of it) should check this page -> http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/ promises/

By: rleored

rleored — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:05:24 +0000

To smirky and Mr. Esterbrook:

“That is still too high. But when else exactly in history has fourth-fifths of any category of military power voluntarily been given up, to say nothing of within a single generation?”

Try the Washington Armament Treaty of 1922!

The “winners” in WW1 decided to give up arms…as did Japan. Mr. Esterbrook, if you read any subsequent history, you might find a chapter describing WW2
and Hitler.

I doubt you will bother though, it will cloud your fantasy

Mr. Obama seems not to read the same histories as you.

Peace will be best maintained by free, democratic republics who are strong enough and confident enough to
help guarantee some stability

This teaty is totally unnecessary unless you are a starry-eyed lefty who needs to be liked by EVERYONE.

This is like the kid on the playground defending himself against bullies. “I’m gonna drop this stick now, so if I promise not to pick it up again, I am sure you will want to be my friend.” Personally I would keep the stick.
Even if I decide not to fight that day