[A Conservative Teacher] Obama's Bizarro World Nuclear Policies

[A Conservative Teacher]

A running joke on this blog is that Obama is actually from the Bizarro World (also known as Htrae), which is a fictional planet in the DC comics universe. Introduced in the early 1960s, Htrae is home to Bizarro and his companions, who are ruled by the Bizarro Code. This code states that you should do the opposite of all Earthly things, such as hate beauty, love ugliness, make it a crime to make anything perfect, criminalize doing right, attempt to lose money on business, etc. It was referenced notably in the Seinfeld episode "The Bizarro Jerry". See, the important point here is that the results of the actions of Bizarro world are the exact opposite of what is desirable, and sometimes is the results are even the opposite of what the residents of Bizarro world might even say.

President Obama may have stated clearly and with conviction his desire to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons, but the realities are that during his time as President more nations have more ever closer to having more nuclear weapons. And it isn't even that these states have built nuclear weapons- it is that over the last four short years multiple states have moved to the point where they could easily build and launch nuclear missiles on short notice- some are within only a couple weeks of preparation from going from 'non-nuclear' to 'nuclear' if they so desired.

Over the last several years, North Korea has expanded its nuclear capabilities with a second and third successful test which clearly demonstrated nuclear capabilities, India and Pakistan have greatly expanded their nuclear stockpiles and increased the sophistication of their missiles, Egypt may be working on building nuclear stockpiles, and Iran has moved to a point where it could possibly within a month be capable of delivering a nuclear strike on other states in the region. South Korea and Japan have both recently discussed the possibility of expanding their capabilities. And China has continued to develop it's capabilities to deliver its nuclear warheads greater distances and with greater accuracy.

So another the United States greatly decreased its nuclear capabilities, the steady increase in fissionable material and the steady spread of knowledge on how to build nuclear weapons has increased, and at some point in the future- probably nearer rather than farther with Obama's bumbling and inept leadership- the genie will be out of the bottle and critical mass will be reached and we'll go from a world where only a few states control nuclear weapons to a world where every state has them or the capability to have them. And that won't be a better world.

From the Belmont Club's post Bootleggers and Fleets-in-Being:

... Henri Solski at the National Review online notes that “Japan may open a plant that can produce eight tons of plutonium a year — enough to make 1,000 to 2,000 nuclear weapons annually. That’s at least as many weapons as are in the entire U.S. operationally deployed nuclear force. … Japan already has ten tons of nuclear explosive plutonium stockpiled on its soil from previous reprocessing activities.” Not to be outdone South Korea is joining the game- South Korea also wants to make plutonium-based nuclear fuels from imported U.S. power-reactor assemblies....

...Neither Japan nor Korea may have an actually assembled bomb. But given their technological and industrial prowess the Japanese and Koreans can turn these materials into actual nuclear weapons in a very short period. How short a period? The Institute for Science and International Security estimates that given 25 kg of material, Iran could “sprint” to an actual bomb in 2 to 3 weeks....

....Currently, the IAEA inspects two Iranian enrichment facilities on average once a week, and a third facility every two weeks on average. With this rate of inspections, Iran would need to produce 25 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium (enough for one bomb) from its stockpiles of lower enriched uranium in less than one week. The window might be widened to two or three weeks if Tehran blocked one or two inspections on the pretext of an “accident” or a “protest.”...

...The Obama administration is in the ironic position of having to undo the results of its own feckless policy. The arms race is at least partially of its own making; the result of the breakdown of US hegemony. Obama’s efforts to reduce US military dominance, to defund “unproven missile defense systems”; never to build future combat systems and create a “world without nuclear weapons” have created a a vacuum, i.e. a Japan and the Republic of Korea that no longer believe in the Administration’s nuclear guarantee. And therefore they are looking to themselves for security guarantees....

...The world had a choice of two security models. In the first only the cops could carry the guns; the “Scotland Yard Model”. In the second, the cops refuse to come out of the precinct house. With the Scotland Yard model dead everyone is forced to carry. This can be called the “Tombstone Territory” model where “your future’s just as good as your draw.” Perhaps the Obama administration meant well by declaring a World Without Nuclear Weapons and starting by melting down it’s shootin’ irons. But instead of Scotland Yard, we are now on the way to Tombstone Territory....

...If Obama cannot stop proliferation by rogue states then inevitably countries like France and perhaps other pacifist European countries will start selling nuclear materials technology to China, Taiwan, Singapore and others. If you can’t beat them, join them....

...For years people complained about the cost of maintaining the peace. But maybe the cost of being the hegemon wasn’t really so big when you consider the alternative.

President Obama and his Democratic supports might have meant well- I still give them the benefit of the doubt- but their policies may have not only weakened America but weakened the world order and moved our world one step closer to nuclear armageddon, which would be ironic because they spent years arguing that Bush and his policies were doing that very thing. Irony is funny and reality bites.

FYI, as the sidebar on my blog says- You can tell who the real denizens of Bizarro world are because they argue the opposite of good: that our economy must crash for things to be better, that the more people who are on unemployment the better the economy is, that you must appease all bad guys in the name of peace, that having few wealthy people is a good thing, that kind and considerate people who are curious about the world around them are the bad guys, that closed minded individuals who want to control your life are the good guys, that taking property from others is protecting property, that removing choice from others is helping to liberate them, that the middle class is supported by empowering elites to transfer wealth to the poor, that Israel is the bad guy and Hamas the good guy, that the US killed lots of innocent people in Iraq, that you must bully others in order to stop bullying, that cyber-attacks against those who you disagree with are important to protecting free speech, that liberty is best protected by controlling others, etc. All good Americans should resist these Bizarro's and their Bizarro agenda.

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Posted By A Conservative Teacher to A Conservative Teacher at 4/15/2013 12:30:00 AM