"Former U.S. President George W. Bush says multilateral diplomacy is the key to resolving the standoff over North Korea's nuclear program.During a speech in Seoul, South Korea Wednesday, Mr. Bush said the six-nation talks are "the best way to bring peace to the Korean peninsula."The United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea have been negotiating with North Korea since 2003 to convince the communist regime to abandon its nuclear weapons program in exchange for economic aid.(http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-14-voa12.cfm)"
Okay, I know this is a totally crazy idea, but why not just shut down our nuclear weapons program? It seems like everyone else would be more willing if the country who was asking everyone to disarm wasn't stockpiling their own nuclear arsenal. I understand why we have enough firepower to blow a whole in the earth, but I don't understand why the U.S. thinks anyone will listen to them while we have a gun pointed to their head.
Point #2: If someone launches a warhead at us, we're screwed, right? There is nothing that will prevent a catastrophic event on our soil. So the entire purpose of having the warheads is to screw the other guy before we go down. If we truly wanted peace, we would abandon that mentality and disarm our own program while we ask for the same of others.
Or we can let everyone armor up and hope no one has a hot trigger finger. I live in Idaho, so either is okay with me.
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