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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (269859)1/24/2006 7:12:16 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 1571057
 
I like to view what we do as an American, but also I try to put myself in the shoes of the other countries in the world, to see how what we do looks to THEM. That's where what the pundits call "soft power" comes from, the ability to sieze the imagination and support of foreign citizens.

As far as nuclear weapons, we and the Russians are sitting on arsenals that dwarf the arsenals of the entire rest of the world. As long as this is the case, we have NO moral authority from which to be dictating other nations nuclear programs or ambitions. We aren't even making a serious effort to address the massive nuclear stockpiles possessed by ourselves and the Russians, stockpiles we have reduced by 50% in PAST administrations. The Russians would probably LOVE to reduce their expensive-to-maintain nuclear arsenal.

Progress CAN be made, and countries HAVE given up their nuclear weapon programs, as S. Africa did.
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