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Associated Press news writer is Ann Gearan

Gearan’s Liberal ideas are popular misconceptions



While news articles have been discussing Obama’s plans for Iran and nuclear disarmament, it is wise to scrutinize the leftwing misconceptions that all too often distort these issues on the international scene.

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One Associated Press news writer is Ann Gearan who recently wrote an article, “Analysis: Obama no-nukes pledge not so farfetched”. In it, Gearan writes, “The size of the U.S. and Russian arsenals inspires nuclear starter-states such as China to add to their stockpiles and give non-nuclear states a reason to join the club.” That is partly false because it presumes that China ’s acquirement of nuclear weapons is primarily a response to the US , Russian arsenals. However, even if the American/Russian arsenals did not exist, China would still desire the nuclear dominance over free nations it is actually pursuing. That is because with greater nuclear power (and other types), China can persistently advance its own corrupt agenda as a Communist dictatorship while neutralizing free nations’ attempts to stop it. This legitimizes the US hoarding of nuclear weapons. So, China ’s despotism “inspires” free countries to maintain their nuclear stockpiles as a deterrent against despotism. China must stop being a dictatorship if it wants America to get rid of its nuclear weapons. The existence of U.S. nuclear stockpiles is merely a convenient excuse for China ’s development of nuclear weapons. Gearan’s statement is also mistaken in implying that Obama’s disarming of America will dissuade China from developing nuclear weapons. It will not--for the above reasons. China will only use it’s illegally obtained WMDs to threaten war, or use nuclear blackmail, whenever America wants to stop China from enacting its despotic goals (i.e. stopping Taiwan ’s push towards liberty and independence, etc). In fact, China has, for years, engaged in illegal weapons and oil bartering with Iran and Russia . Of course, like all of history’s dictators, China, Iran and others will lie when telling the international community that they want nuclear power for peaceful purposes. It is only democrat naiveté and stupidity that will presume these dictatorships’ trustworthiness despite history’s proving otherwise. The moral superiority of democracies over dictatorships is the criterion by which we can critically examine Gearan’s next statement. Ann Gearan wrote that America ’s “eliminating nuclear weapons makes the United States more credible” (i.e. non-hypocritical) “when it argues that states such as Iran should not be able to build their own arsenals.” That is also mistaken since it presupposes a moral equivalence between America and Islamofacist Iran (i.e. that both are legitimate countries each possessing an equal right to expect the other to disarm). In actuality, however, America and Iran are moral opposites in that one is a Constitutional Republic based on Individual Rights and the other an Islamic dictatorship. Because of this difference, America has a right to disarm Iran and is not hypocritical for doing so. Considering that dictatorships have oppressed their own people and view democracies as obstacles to their human-rights abuses, Iran and China want more power than free nations. This becomes further corroborated by dictator Mamoud Ahmadinejad’s vow to obliterate Israel from the map and China ’s threat to US-protected Taiwan . Because dictatorships are anti-democratic, they have no right to build nuclear weapons they may use to threaten free nations. By contrast, being a free nation gives America a moral right to defend itself—with nuclear power—from dictatorships that threaten America ’s safety and influence. This means nuclear deterrence not nuclear war. Further, being oppressive towards its own people and posing a threat to free countries renders Iran an illegitimate regime--a villain. Like all thugs, Iran has no right to own nuclear weapons anymore than a serial killer has a right to own his murder weapon. Therefore, it is not hypocrisy for free Americans to demand that Ahmadinejad cease building nuclear weapons while maintaining their own arsenal. Hence, in such a rational view of things, the US loses no credibility when holding Iran to a different standard. Because of Iran ’s despotism and threat to free nations, the burden is on Iran to prove it is a free country respecting it’s citizens rights and prove it poses no danger to free countries---before it can say it has an equal right to pursue nuclear weapons. All free nations must create a global climate in which dictatorships are made to feel like their despotism will not be tolerated. Dictators must realize the world knows they do not deserve their nuclear weapons considering their past and future dangerousness to innocent people and free societies. The free world, at the right time and in the right way, should tell all dictators that they are criminals and either: “disarm or give up your rule.” This is the type of global cooperation—one among free nations—that Obama should be pursuing.


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