Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Critical Importance of Obama's Nonproliferation Proposals
Yesterday, a post by the Atlantic's Marc Armbinder explained that Obama's budget proposal includes a dramatic increase in funding for nuclear nonproliferation. The president deserves much more credit for this than he's getting. I know this sounds all 1980s, but the destructive power of nuclear weapons is pretty much too horribly powerful to comprehend (modern bombs make Fat Man and Little Boy look like fire crackers). Nothing makes the world safer than securing nukes and hopefully eliminating them entirely. Another reason that our 2008 votes were so important.
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Indeed, this kind of thing is huge--and clearly not something the Obama WH is doing for politcal theater, as nobody really knows about it.
John Judis, in The New Republic, has a blog bit about other areas where Obama has been golden, but that nobody talks about. Here are sample sentences, and the link:
"These days, liberals don’t know whether to feel betrayed by or merely disappointed with Barack Obama....Yet there is one extremely consequential area where Obama has done just about everything a liberal could ask for...Obama’s three Republican predecessors were all committed to weakening or even destroying the country’s regulatory apparatus...Obama is seeking to rebuild these battered institutions. In doing so, he isn’t simply improving the effectiveness of various government offices or making scattered progress on a few issues; he is resuscitating an entire philosophy of government with roots in the Progressive era of the early twentieth century. "
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-quiet-revolution
That was a really good article. I just don't know how Obama will be able to get credit for this stuff politically. It's frustrating.
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