Dumb, Dumb, Dumb

How can you demand that other nations curtail their nuclear weapons programs if you are not prepared to do so yourself? Such a stance indicates that you think you are morally capable of handling nuclear weapons, but others are not. In other words, you think are better than them. Even if you do invade sovereign countries on false pretexts, even if your troops do sodomize prisoners in contravention of the Geneva convention, etc etc...

U.S. Shifts Stance on Nuclear Treaty: "

"In a significant shift in U.S. policy, the Bush administration announced this week that it will oppose provisions for inspections and verification as part of an international treaty that would ban production of nuclear weapons materials.

For several years the United States and other nations have pursued the treaty, which would ban new production by any state of highly enriched uranium and plutonium for weapons. At an arms-control meeting this week in Geneva, the Bush administration told other nations it still supported a treaty, but not verification.

Administration officials, who have showed skepticism in the past about the effectiveness of international weapons inspections, said they made the decision after concluding that such a system would cost too much, would require overly intrusive inspections and would not guarantee compliance with the treaty. They declined, however, to explain in detail how they believed U.S. security would be harmed by creating a plan to monitor the treaty. "