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NY Post - April 7, 2009
BAM BLINKS

Talk about pie-in-the-sky.
Sure, nuclear proliferation poses a serious long-term security threat to the United States. That's obvious.
But that threat comes not, as Obama seems to believe, from nuclear weapons per se, but from the damage they could do in the hands of non-state actors like al Qaeda -- or rogue states like Iran, also in search of a deliverable warhead.
Nukes, in fact, are largely responsible for maintaining relative global peace for the past 60 years -- just as they could well have a calming effect now in the hands of a responsible power like Japan.
The idea that nonproliferation treaties would halt Iran's quest for a bomb or North Korea's drive for an effective delivery system borders on lunacy.
Worse, Tehran and Pyongyang might see Obama's enthusiasm for such treaties as weakness -- perhaps correctly.
Last fall, now-Vice President Joe Biden warned that America's enemies would move quickly to test Obama if he were elected president.
That test is under way -- not as a single crisis, but as a series of provocations.
Obama's response thus far has been singularly unimpressive. (see full article here)