* Bush winks at our biggest ally in the Middle East, Israel, which harbors scores of nukes while claiming not to, even as we threaten to bomb Israel’s enemies for trying to join the club.
* Meanwhile, silently ticking away are thousands of leftover Soviet nukes waiting to be purchased on the black market. Tantalizing reports in a variety of sources suggest that Valerie Plame, the CIA official outed by Cheney’s staff, was trying to prevent such black market deals prior to being exposed.
* By far the most glaring inconsistency in our nuclear policy is the gap between what we tell others to do and what we do. While it’s true we’re dismantling hundreds of aging nuclear weapons of uncertain reliability in this country, we’re recycling much of that material in preparation for building a whole new nuclear arsenal.
If you can find the thread of coherency or consistency in the above list, I’d love to hear about it. To me, it amounts to a formula for making enemies, spreading war, chaos and nuclear technology, with a radioactive world as the inevitable end result.
Seen in this light, Bush’s approach to China makes perfect sense. Like Dubya himself, when he tries to articulate, well… damn near anything, it’s insulting. It’s incoherent.
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