The suspected strike indicates the Obama administration is unlikely to give up a Bush-era tactic American officials say has killed a string of al-Qaida operatives, even if it strains the relationship with Islamabad.Funny how that works.
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The president quixotically says that a further U.S.-Russian nuclear drawdown will give the United States "greater moral authority to say to Iran, 'Don't develop a nuclear weapon,' to say to North Korea, 'Don't proliferate nuclear weapons.' "*
This is a charming notion, but it displays shocking ignorance of the strategic rationale driving countries toward creating or expanding their nuclear arsenals.
In general, the smaller and less powerful the country, the more beneficial nuclear weapons are.
North Korea, the poster child for rogue countries with nuclear weapons, is a failed totalitarian state that has rendered itself immune from attack for fear of the consequences.