It's moments like this when I think maybe I've been a Republican all along and just didn't know it. This was one of Kerry's clearest moments. There is no nuance here. But I totally disagree."Right now the president is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research bunker-busting nuclear weapons. The United States is pursuing a new set of nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense.
You talk about mixed messages. We're telling other people, "You can't have nuclear weapons," but we're pursuing a new nuclear weapon that we might even contemplate using.
Not this president. I'm going to shut that program down, and we're going to make it clear to the world we're serious about containing nuclear proliferation."
I can see the Iranians saying "You have nukes, why shouldn't we?' But that's the Iranians. Kerry wants to be the American president. Does he think America can't be trusted not to randomly nuke anyone who annoys us? Does he have no thoughts on why our security situation might be a little different from that of any other county on earth? This isn't the first time I've wondered whose side Kerry is on. It's as if he wants to be president of the world. I want a president who is unambigously the President of the United States.
And I love how horrified he is by the fact that "...we're pursuing a new nuclear weapon that we might even contemplate using." Uh, yeah. Does he think we don't contemplate using the nuclear weapons we have now? If the US or one of our allies (Israel leaps to mind) was facing an existential threat, I think we would do whatever it took. Wouldn't it be nice to have a range of options that would allow us to target, oh say... Iran's deeply buried nuclear facilities instead of Tehran and all the innocent people living there?
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