You Can't Make Deals with Nuts

Hugh Hewitt and the RCP Blog replay portions of a speech that Speaker wannbe Nancy Pelosi gave in 2003 regarding nuclear weapons:

"Yet by shredding the ABM Treaty and flirting with the unthinkable – 'usable' battlefield nuclear weapons – the Bush Administration turns the clock back on three decades of arms control.

"The United States must not create new nuclear weapons and ignite new arms races. As the only nation ever to use nuclear weapons, we have a moral obligation to be a leader in ridding this scourge from the face of the Earth forever.

"The United States does not need a multi-billion-dollar national missile defense against the possibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.

"What we need is a strong nonproliferation policy with other nations to combat the most serious threat to our national security and to the safety of the world – weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists who would smuggle them into our cities.

Look how well that worked with North Korea. Jimmuh Carter negotiated a "treaty" in 1994 that was immediately violated by the NoKos and yesterday they tested a nuclear device, in a directed repudiation of the wishes of the rest of the civilized world.

Libs like Pelose naively believe that binding treaties can be negotiated with everybody, including crazy people, and as long as we have something on paper, we can stop them from doing bad things. They just don't get it.

It also bothers me when libs refer to the U.S. as being the "only nation to use nuclear weapons". Yes, that's true, but without proper context, that statement makes it sound as though we were in the wrong to use them when we did. Those two early model bombs ended WWII and saved countless thousands, or even millions, of American, Allied and Japanese lives that would have been lost in the invasion of the home islands. If there was ever a judicious and fully justified use of nuclear weapons, that was it.