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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (887684)	9/14/2015 3:22:24 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574854

>> We're not serious about stopping nuclear proliferation This was a strange comment. In the mid-70s, one of the single most important issues was nuclear proliferation. Many, if not most, believed that there was no end in sight and Jimmy Carter, during his campaign, was all about ending proliferation. He didn't. Didn't make meaningful progress at all because he was weak and ineffectual as a president. Reagan didn't talk much about it, he just did it. He recognized that a strategy of MAD was idiotic that it put the entire world at risk because some lunatic could end it at will. He saw a rare opportunity to deal with it by breaking the Soviet Union in an arms race, and SDI was part of that strategy. And he succeeded at eliminating the greatest threat (although one could argue that Putin now poses a growing danger, which one has to blame Barack Obama for). You can't stop everyone; but we could have stopped Iran or at least slowed them. What Obama did was, by any measure, giving away the store. I've never really seen anything like it. Z can say what he wants, but it is Barack Obama who set the stage for the next wave of proliferation.