These arms control experts are people embedded in the very national security state that makes and maintains so many nukes in the first place. The US side of the bargain is simply: they like a world with fewer nukes because they hope they have technological edges that no other force can match (mostly a delusion as Iraq and Afganistan show, as Israel's periodic pulverizing of Gaza shows--their high-tech militaries are so expensive they aren't really very good for anything in the old imperialist mode).
Also what is going on here is the Obama warpigs trying to get Russia lined up with them on Iran. You have to wonder what the real conversation between Obama and Netanyahu was: like, N. giving Obama a deadline, after which, Israel takes unilateral action against Iran--not, of course, because Iran would have a nuke on a missile capable of hitting Israel but because N. has to get re-elected or at least keep his party in power. Don't you wish they would invite Israel to multi-lateral talks on how all nuclear powers could eliminate nuclear weapons? CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
