Obama's Vision - The World's Nightmare?

James R. Schlesinger: Why We Don't Want a Nuclear-Free World - WSJ.com: "'Nuclear weapons are used every day.' So says former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, speaking last month at his office in a wooded enclave of Maclean, Va. ...

We use nuclear weapons every day, Mr. Schlesinger goes on to explain, 'to deter our potential foes and provide reassurance to the allies to whom we offer protection.'...

Mr. Obama likes to talk about his vision of a nuclear-free world, and in Moscow he and Mr. Medvedev signed an agreement setting targets for sweeping reductions in the world's largest nuclear arsenals. Reflecting on the hour I spent with Mr. Schlesinger, I can't help but think: Do we really want to do this?...

'If, by some miracle, we were able to eliminate nuclear weapons,' he says, 'what we would have is a number of countries sitting around with breakout capabilities or rumors of breakout capabilities -- for intimidation purposes. . . . and finally, probably, a number of small clandestine stockpiles.' This would make the U.S. more vulnerable.

Everyone keeps telling me how brilliant the President is. Well, there is intelligence and there is wisdom. The President may be extremely intelligent, but he has no wisdom. And his left-wing indoctrination has inoculated him from the accumulated wisdom of the ages. Any eighth-grade-educated hayseed from fly-over America could tell the pursuit of a nuclear-free world is a stupid and dangerous idea. Our Harvard Law Review president will have to learn through trial and error. Trial and error experimentation with a an international nuclear order that has prevented World War III for six decades - not a brilliant policy in my eyes - but I only went to a public university.