Obama and Nuclear Weapons?

President Obama must look to home agenda despite adoration overseas Bronwen Maddox, Chief Foreign Commentator - Times Online: "In opening the UN Security Council session yesterday he called for “the day when nuclear weapons have been banned”. He put this theme, toxically eccentric a few years ago, right at the top of his personal agenda."

Where does this zeal for removing nuclear weapons fit in currently? There are at least two ways of viewing this focus on removal. At the same time as Obama is negotiating with Russia the "new" trend of removing weapons at a time when Iran is trying to get weapons might make them think - what a foolish thing to start up now when everyone is leaving the business.

However, there is another way that Ahmadi-nejad might think. The fewer weapons the US and Russia have the more our weapons will count.

I still find this amazing. No one will occupy Iran and change its regime but they can't stop threatening Iran concerning the possibility that they construct a nuclear bomb. If China and Russia pitch in at the security council, maybe Iran would be content with a civilian nuclear project but Saddam Hussein flouted 17 UN resolutions. However, China let North Korea build one of these sties in the eye of the Great Satan. North Korea and Iran for China seems like Hamas and Hizbollah for Iran. So this would indeed by positive change if it happened.

Replacing Bush with Obama at the UN, having payed up what the US owns the organization and expressed good will, probably have had a beneficial effect on inhibiting Ahmadi-nejad's scheme of turning one small country after the other against Israel. The General Assembly was quite empty when Ahmadi-nejad spoke this time according to a photo I saw on a Canadian web site.