http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...4G8-QD9ETQPK80
His defense secretary, Robert Gates said the focus would now be on terror groups such as al-Qaida as well as North Korea's nuclear buildup and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Who have we been "focusing" on? Guam?
"For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda," Obama said, distancing his administration from the decades-long U.S. focus on arms competition with Russia and on the threat posed by nuclear missiles on hair-trigger alert.
Did he take a trip on the hot tub time machine back to the 80's? Since when have we been in an arms race with Russia? The original START treaty was signed by the first President Bush and then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
"The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states," he said, spelling out the core theme of the new strategy.
I get what he is saying but arent we just shifting focus (though I am not sure how this treaty with Russia is appreciably different than anything that has been in effect for decades) from one set of countries (Russia and China though we arent actually allowed to acknowledge Chinese nukes) to Iran and North korea? And havent we been trying to get these countries to stop their programs for years with little success?
Think of the politics of it however but in essence this is like me calling a summit of trainers and saying that I will not start drugging my horses as long as everyone else does the same. Think Ness/Iran or Dutrow/S Korea are really gonna turn their needles/bombs in?