Trippin’ On Mushroom Clouds

President Obama is going to announce today that the United States is going to drastically change the way we use nuclear weapons. Basically, the President's plan takes a position that if we get into a war with a non-nuclear armed nation we won't reduce them to ashes. Wow, how realistic. He also leaves the back door open for nuclear weapons to be deployed against nut job countries like Iran and North Korea. Alright, that's a realistic approach to that too. What you will also see today is the right (especially the Tea Party), flip the mother flippin' flippidy flip out. They will accuse the President of making us look weak. They will accuse him of getting rid of all of our nuclear weapons (not true), and they will accuse him of making us vulnerable to another terrorist attack. What the right fails to understand is foreign policy means more than attacking a sovereign nation and bombing them into the Stone Age.

Foreign policy doesn't equal war, and it's about time we move away from that belief. It's also about time we stop equating our President's lack of fear and willingness to use diplomacy (gasp!) as weakness. It is anything but. The validation in the President's new nuclear policy lay in the fact that no less than 47 nations will be in attendance at a summit in Washington D.C. next week to discuss this very subject. 47 nations attending such an event is pretty much unheard of, and proves that the world indeed feels more comfortable with a U.S. President that uses his head rather than harbor a knee jerk reaction to go to war with everyone who doesn't like us. Cowboys don't make good Presidents anyway.