re: #266 freetoken

This is going to be a real hot-button issue, I think.

We, the US, have tried over the decades to keep others from getting nuclear weapons. Some might say it was for noble reasons, others might say it was for selfish reasons, but nevertheless we did try.

And we failed, miserably. Over and over, other nations have developed nuclear weapons no matter what we have tried.

If President Obama wants to strengthen US resolve to keep nukes out of the hands of yet more nations he will have to do what all others before him have failed to do.

However, this is an issue about which we have always walked a fine line, given we have publicly refused to mention the Israeli nuclear capability. Hopefully the Israelis will accept that trying to force Obama’s hands in these matters will just force the US into a corner out of which we have no escape.

There is something to be said for letting sleeping dogs lie.

It’s going to get interesting.