Michael Medved : Does a Weaker America Make the World Safer? - Townhall.com

Michael Medved : Does a Weaker America Make the World Safer? - Townhall.com: "How does reducing the number of nuclear weapons in America’s arsenal make our nation stronger or safer? How does it help to deter potential chemical or biological attacks if we rule out nuclear retaliation in advance? The newly-announced Obama defense strategy is so profoundly illogical that it’s more likely to inspire confusion than indignation.

On the one hand, the administration suggests that the push toward disarmament will inspire better behavior from Iran and North Korea—ignoring the fact that whenever a nation reduces or limits its own power, it only encourages more aggressiveness from its adversaries. The ill-fated disarmament agreements of the 1920’s, along with the Kellogg-Briand treaty that formerly outlawed war (and won its architects Nobel Peace Prizes), only made the world safe for Japanese Imperialism and Nazism—not for democracy or self-determination. The president and the secretary of state seem to have altered the entire purpose of American security policy: rather than focusing on a stronger nation, we now aim for a “safer” world."