In response to North Korea’s recent rocket launch, Barack Obama spoke in Prague and gave those in attendance a dandy piece of fiction: a world without nuclear arms. Imagine that. I can’t conceive how the United States, the most powerful country with nuclear arms, even attempts to spearhead a project of this magnitude. I find it ironic that the most nuclear dependant country in the world is championing an anti-nuclear arms cause. This is full of contradictions. The Americans didn’t win the Cold War because they flipped better burgers.

Barack even conceded that a nuclear free world will probably not even occur in our life time. Why champion this cause? More brownie points I suppose. It’s what they want to hear, and not what we need to happen. There are more important problems to solve such as Iraq, the economy and even the Russian territorial claims. Our world is too dependant on nuclear arms as a deterrent than ever before. At least it was simple before. In the Cold War, it was us or them. Now, there is a baker’s dozen worth of nations competing for nuclear supremacy. North Korea has nuclear technologies! Doesn’t this frighten anyone? If this really worried anyone, they should have done something about it when they had the chance. If we want to decrease the amount of nuclear arms, why don’t we make an effort to stop these rogue nations?

Why hasn’t Barack Obama learned to love the bomb yet? We need it on our side. You’d think all those years of Cold War indoctrination would have gotten to him. Apparently not. Perhaps the American government has moved onto death-ray technologies? I hope so.