Iran Building a Second Nuke Plant

Yesterday Obama chaired the UN's Security Council meeting on nuclear proliferation designed to free the world of nuclear weapons. Today Iran revealed they're building a second nuclear fuel plant. Apparently they were not swayed by his golden words:

The government of Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it is building a previously undisclosed uranium enrichment plant for making fuel, the nuclear watchdog agency said Friday.

President Obama will call attention to the existence of the underground facility in an early-morning statement to reporters here before the opening of the G-20 economic summit, and will say that Western intelligence agencies have been tracking the facility for years. U.S. officials said Obama decided to disclose the program's existence after learning that Iran had become aware that it was no longer a secret.

Obama's statement, which will be made jointly with the leaders of France and Great Britain, was added to his schedule late Thursday night. It comes a day after Obama chaired a United Nations Security Council session on halting the spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world.

Although Obama referred to the nuclear ambitions of both Iran and North Korea during the session, diplomatic maneuvering kept any mention of the two countries out of a resolution that the council unanimously approved. The omission prompted passionate criticism from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who will join Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday morning to decry Iran's newly disclosed facility.

"How, before the eyes of the world, could we justify meeting without tackling them?" Sarkozy scolded Thursday, referring to Iran and North Korea. "We live in the real world, not a virtual world. And the real world expects us to take decisions."

Cue the Israeli Air Force (unless Obama decides to shoot them down).

I just caught a bit of one of the world's leaders talking about the ultimate goal of a nuclear weapon-free world. In fact, I think it was Sarkozy, who lives in a "real world".

Well, let me tell you that in this real world we'll never be free of nuclear weapons. At least I hope not, because the the day America disarms itself of our most powerful weapons is the day we'll find ourselves surrendering to China, Russia, or some terrorist group that decided not to play along.

The presence of nukes have probably saved the world from WWIII by keeping conflicts contained to regional problems and not allowing them to expand and consume the world. The concept of "Mutually Assured Destruction" works and we can't let the rainbows and unicorn crowd disarm us.