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Hillary vs. Obama on the nuclear option
Posted By katie allison granju
Don Williams says there’s a major difference between the two Democratic frontrunners on the issue of nuclear weapons:
It’s the kind of issue that is a deal-maker-or-breaker for those with the imagination to envision a future in which the world is not put at risk by human folly. Barack Obama envisions a world without nuclear weapons. A world in which new nukes would be prohibited and old nuclear stockpiles would be secured and dealt down. Hillary? She would reserve the option to bomb “enemies” who wish to obtain nukes, and fund “friends” who would go nuclear. Yes, one could say she’s endorsed the Kissinger, Shultz, Nunn and Perry proposal, but her endorsement is serpentine and curiously worded. In effect, it soft-pedals and understates their call for a nuclear-free world, before tacitly endorsing it.
In an Oct. 2, 2007 speech at DePaul University, on the other hand, Obama laid out 9 principles of foreign policy that he would adhere to. Number One? Ridding the world of nuclear weapons
Feb 13th, 2008
