You are making the false assumption that we think we have the right to have these weapons. I don't think we do. I think we have them out of necessity.
Personally, I don't think having the ability to wipe out millions of people in a single blast is something that should be distributed equally to anyone that wants one. And I think the reason why is fairly obvious.
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You know what would be a real display of non nuclear proliferation, is if the West (mainly USA, Britain, France) East (Russia and China) Mid East (Israel, India, Pakistan) stepped up and showed they are serious about non-nuclear warfare. Start cutting their massive quantities down, then places like Iran and NKorea would be less likely to match those countries that are pointing nukes at them.
The US is currently fighting to get a treaty through Congress that would require both us and Russia to cut our number of nukes down to 1550 and our launchers to 700. There's quite a bit of Republican opposition to the treaty (and some Democratic, I'd imagine, though I don't know).
Besides these two, every other country in the world that signed the NNP treaty has cut their numbers of atomic weapons. Don't blame the "West" for what's, realistically, the fault of these two nations. And on our part, it's because we have this assinine gov't that's split in half on every issue with no third party to tip the scales.
We THINK Israel has nukes, but they've been mum on it. But they never signed the above treaty in any case.
The problem is that Iran and North Korea DID sign that treaty, and then sought uranium enrichment hidden from the rest of the world. (North Korea withdrew after signing, but Iran is still on record as saying they wouldn't seek nuclear arms).
Why should nations not have free access to these weapons? Because they can f
ucking destroy the world, that's why. There's absolutely no reason for there to be that many nukes in existence. It's bad enough having them in the hands of gov'ts were
pretty sure would never use them. Just letting countries who attack others for national entertainment have them is retarded.
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I personally have no grudge against these "evil" people. The guy in Iran (im not going to attempt to spell his name) won in an election. Rigged or not the same skeptical view can be as easily applied to the 2000/2004 elections in the USA. Communist societies are mostly in favor of the governments they have, they over through the semi-democratic preceding governments in places like Korea, and Cuba for a reason. Simple fact is not everyone in the world wants to be like the West, not everyone in the world cares for democratic politics, which are arguably just as corrupt if not more so.
You are acting like it was just some guy with a microphone screaming that the Iranian election was rigged. It almost certainly was.
Furthermore, no one here has argued that gov'ts need to be like the West. I have no problem with a stable communist nation having a nuke (at least no more than I have regarding a stable republic). The problem is that these nations are incredibly unstable, which means we have no clue who will come to power and into posession of nukes, and are pretty ******* insane as it is. There's no reason a decently stable communist/socialist nation couldn't emerge. They'd have to have one hell of a moral and politically savvy leader though, or choose socialism via a republic. China's gov't could totally stabilize once the horribly corrupt systems are gone.
You know how many nations got nukes? Because the fall of the USSR turned them into candy on halloween. That's why we worry that
terrorist organizations have some--and the issue with these groups isn't that they believe something different, it's that what they believe involves a massive amount of death all around. Sorry, but I'm perfectly willing to say that they shouldn't have one.
And you are retarded if you think the US gov't is more corrupt than North Korea.
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If your sense of freedom is being able to dictate to the world that you are right and they are wrong, that you can have and they can not, what kind of freedom is that. What kind of freedom do you support when the government in your own damn countries slowly strip you of personal rights. If I want to smoke a joint, I should be able to smoke a joint, it isn't harming anyone but me. Before you get on your high horse each day you should look in your own backyard to see how really free and right your own country is. Quite frankly the West has gone on long enough dictating their views on the world. Personally I hope someone shuts them up. If that means a nuke lands in my backyard so be it, maybe one day the hypocritical stance of the West will finally become less full of bullsh*t dictaion and more so about actually extending helping hands.
Rdmcandie, meet the straw man. Straw man, meet rdmcandie.
It has nothing to do with us thinking we are right and they are wrong and everything to do with thinking they'll use a nuke to wipe out an entire CITY without provocation.