Good article.

>Here is an interesting policy piece on the price of oil and national security that is interesting:
>
>http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2008/0522_oil_sandalow.aspx
>
>>Yep. I believe in the policy of deterrence. Where I have a problem is in the numbers. If a country can destroy the entire planet say 3 times, why does it feel the need to spend billions, even trillions of dollars to ensure that it will be able to do it 5 times. Why isn't three times enough considering that if things go the way they should, the 2nd and 3rd times would never be able to be used anyway.
>>
>>>Hence the policy of deterrence...
>>>
>>>>>I have a question for you, because personally I agree with the goal of a nuclear weapons free world. If Russia and the U.S. agree to all of the items in the list, what about all of the other nations? How would that be enforced since it cannot be enforced now? If you were India, would you trust Pakistan? If you were Israel, would you trust Iran? It can go both directions of course, but I'm just giving examples. Right now, there is no 'enforcement.'
>>>>
>>>>And never will be. That's why, as laudable a goal as it is, it will never be achieved. Wait, let me rephrase. It will never be achieved until somebody comes up with more horribly destructive systems than nuclear fission. Then nuclear will go the way of the spear, and the other will take over.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I guess the subject should be national defense, not military:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/02/27/obama-plans-to-disarm-america
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>It's a bit misleading for them to call it 'Obama-plans-to-disarm-America' considering that it's not what he said. Not wasting billions of dollars on starwars technology that is not only unproven, but has been shown to be fairly useless; not spending billions more on creating more nuclear weapons when he already has enough to destroy the entire world more times than necessary, is not the same as disarming America, but of course, that's what people will take from his speech.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>He may very well lose the elections, because he won't go along with this madness.