This man should not be allowed near nuclear weapons!

[kandrathe]

Because they these "many people" were morons. Bush and Cheney were NEVER a threat to use nuclear weapons. All that talk/crap about tactical nukes was just that, talk.

An, often heard refrain from the left. XYZ is so unbalanced they are apt to launch the nuclear missiles. Nixon, Reagan, etc. Don't you know? Conservatives are warmongers, and progressives are the party of peace (except for Obama, Clinton, Johnson, Kennedy, etc. etc. etc.). Interventionism is the crux of progressive foreign policy. Now we can throw back into the face of liberals and progressives the words of Obama's Nobel speech. "For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism -- it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason." Now we see that the President Obama, when actually given the job of deciding peace or war, acts according to the pragmatic reality of a commander in chief and reveals the ideological nonsense spewed by Senator Obama used to garner votes.

I am more troubled by the use of US military force to accomplish humanitarian, or political goals. We stray and risk straying toward becoming akin to the empires that we stood against in our very foundation. There is a vast difference between smacking down Barbary pirates or Nazi dictators, or defending our borders AND guaranteeing Iraqi women equal rights, spreading liberal democratic society, or preventing systematic starvation and rape in Darfur.