Neo Cons for the Bomb: More Advice from the Men Who Brought You Iraq

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Neo Cons for the Bomb: More Advice from the Men Who Brought You Iraq
By William Hartung - August 4, 2009, 1:08PM


In an article in today's Wall Street Journal, Douglas Feith and Abram Shulsky have joined the chorus of neo-conservative pundits who have been criticizing the Obama administration for taking modest but essential steps towards the president's stated goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. Why anyone would listen to Feith and Shulsky, who were involved in promoting bogus intelligence on weapons of mass destruction to sell the Iraq war is beyond me. But these two men and their neo-conservative cohorts -- from John Bolton to Richard Perle to Frank Gaffney -- have been receiving far too much space in our nation's op-ed pages (particularly, but not only, in the WSJ) for their ill-considered theories about nuclear weapons.

Feith and Perle, for example, take umbrage at the Obama administration's efforts to reach a new nuclear arms accord with Russia, despite the fact that it is the best way to get other countries to join the anti-nuclear bandwagon. Under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970 (signed by that well-known radical, Richard Nixon), the United States and the other major nuclear weapons states pledged to take urgent steps to eliminate their nuclear arsenals in exchange for a promise by non-nuclear states not to acquire them. Nearly 40 years later, with 27,000 deployed nuclear weapons (over 95% possessed by the U.S. and Russia), the big players have certainly stretched the meaning of the word "urgent" beyond any reasonable bounds. President Obama is seeking to change that, both by pledging to seek a world free of nuclear weapons and by taking concrete steps towards eliminating them, from concluding a new arms reduction treaty with Russia, to promoting a ban on all nuclear testing, to pushing for a global agreement to ban the production of bomb making materials.

It is Obama's determination to back up his rhetoric with concrete steps towards disarmament that is driving Feith and his not-so-merry band of colleagues crazy. Whatever rhetoric they may use to disguise it, the "neo-cons for the bomb" are addicted to these weapons of mass terror and can't imagine a world without them. It's up to us to prove them wrong,

[PDJane]

1. Being flippant, if obvious....

It's not terribly hard to drive the neo-cons nuts. They have such a short distance to go to reach total insanity.

I hope Obama can do what he wishes to do and dismantle the armaments that will destroy all of us, eventually.