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World leaders descended on Washington this week as part of a landmark Nuclear Security Summit, a unique opportunity for multilateral discussions of issues relating to nuclear control and nonproliferation. The meeting, hosted by Obama, came mere days after the President signed a historic treaty with the Russian leadership that committed both nations to dramatically reducing their nuclear weapons arsenals by nearly 30% over the next seven years.
Obama has taken some flack on the right for these anti-nuke initiatives, which his critics have characterized as exceedingly naive, peaceniky fantasies. The Republican Party, in its current form, seems to prefer the idea of perpetual war as the ideal state of the international arena, where major international crises can be solved either through bombings, or threats to bomb. A Republican holding the strongest “foreign policy” cred with his base is usually the one most willing to engage in the most vicious and belligerent rhetoric regarding the advisable approach to resolving the problems of our unstable world.
It’s unfortunate, because back in the day GOP presidents used to actually talk about “world peace” with surprising regularity. And not just “peace” in some sort of vague, amorphous way; peace in its most idealized, demilitarized, friendship-between-all-nations, anti-war form. You read the inauguration speeches of Nixon or Reagan, for instance, and you come across a lot of language that seems extremely airy-fairy in the context of today’s pessimistic foreign policy malaise.
A double standard of judging rhetoric I can understand, but it’s another matter entirely when one party decides that the very idea of world peace, or nuclear disarmament, is too fringe to tolerate.
August 1st, 2011 at 8:51 pm
So the left convinced a national leader to run for mayor "to take back Bologna": Cofferati, a former trade-unionist, was elected: but the problem was that he had never lived in Bologna before the elections. It proved to be a disaster: After a couple of promising months, he simply didn't even bother to hide his dislike for this city anymore, and, and spent weeks at time not being here. In the end, he left his deputy major to govern for the last 6 months as he started to campaign for the european elections.
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