I wish i wasn't finding so many examples of my government being stupid, but here's another. The senate unanimously approved this bill to sell nuclear materials to India, the country that less than a decade ago almost started a nuclear war with Pakistan by detonating their own nuclear warhead. One of the conditions in the bill is that India agree to condemn Iran, the country that hasn't yet stepped over the line the way India did so recently.
Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this? We condemn nuclear ambitions by our enemies, claiming that it makes them "the world's enemy", yet when our allies do the same we reward them for it. In this case its even against some UN non-proliferation treaties we signed. How can the United States be taken seriously diplomatically when we don't act consistently on matters like this? Why arent Iran and North Korea justified in pointing to India and saying "What makes our case different?" when we ask them not to test warheads? It seems to reduce the American argument against arms proliferation to nothing more than "they're our enemies, so the world should condemn them regardless of what they do" While our military lets us pull that off to an extent, I think our behavior on topics like this reduces our standing and credibility around the world, and will eventually come back to haunt us.
This also confirms for me that the nuclear cat is out of the bag so to speak, and in 10 or so years we may well be selling nuclear material to Iran and North Korea. Its kinda scary to think about how many crazy people will be in control of nukes in the coming decade. I wonder how long before someone uses one again. Time to start digging that fallout shelter.
Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this? We condemn nuclear ambitions by our enemies, claiming that it makes them "the world's enemy", yet when our allies do the same we reward them for it. In this case its even against some UN non-proliferation treaties we signed. How can the United States be taken seriously diplomatically when we don't act consistently on matters like this? Why arent Iran and North Korea justified in pointing to India and saying "What makes our case different?" when we ask them not to test warheads? It seems to reduce the American argument against arms proliferation to nothing more than "they're our enemies, so the world should condemn them regardless of what they do" While our military lets us pull that off to an extent, I think our behavior on topics like this reduces our standing and credibility around the world, and will eventually come back to haunt us.
This also confirms for me that the nuclear cat is out of the bag so to speak, and in 10 or so years we may well be selling nuclear material to Iran and North Korea. Its kinda scary to think about how many crazy people will be in control of nukes in the coming decade. I wonder how long before someone uses one again. Time to start digging that fallout shelter.
