I think trying to stop other countries from getting nukes is an impossible task. It also makes me understand why other countries may dislike the U.S. They see the nukes as equalizers on the global scale and we don't want anyone else to have them.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think any country should have them, however to quote Agent Smith, It is...inevitable. I find that I am torn over world conflicts. One part of me feels that we should just destroy all of the middle east. I feel that if they had weapons capable they would do no less to us. I feel that you should do no more or less to your enemies than what they would do to you. I mean they will willingly destroy themselves (suicide bombers) to harm us, and they are applauded. So one would believe that they would openly nuke us, knowing their destruction would be assured.
The other half of me believes that this is not the way to go. I feel that we should break off our dependence on anyone for any resource. Perhaps push harder for the hydrogen economy. Let the people who are incapable of governing themselves, helping themselves, and basically unable to stand on their own be wiped from the earth. If people want to live under the boot of a tyrant, let them. It's not our fight. It's like giving money to a bum, he isn't gonna work if he can make the equivalent begging.
I am not worried about N. Korea having nukes. I don't think the country is inhabited by religious fanatics whose definition of their religion involves the destruction of the western world. Our government won't challenge them. We didn't go to war in Iraq because of WMD's. We went to war because of oil and the importance of it to our economy. America consumes 25% of the worlds oil and we only have 3% of the world's population. (
www.nrdc.org) I think we will basically be in the middle east until the oil is gone and then we'll stick our nose in some other countries business that has oil, perhaps Argentina? Basically the destruction of the human race by nuclear war seems inevitable to me. Pandora's Box was opened and it can never be closed. How long can you stifle other countries? In 1-2 hundred years everyone will know how to build nukes. What do we do then? I guess we can hope that society as a whole has scaled Maslo's hierarchical ladder of human needs and reached the level of self-actualization......
http://www.dean.usma.edu/math/activities/c...sm/501maslo.htm
