Barack Obama has laid out a plan to accomplish what only Superman was capable of: ridding the world of all nuclear weapons. And even though Superman first proposed the idea to the United Nations in a terrible 20-year-old movie, it still makes an awful lot of sense. Much of our diplomacy and saber-rattling has to do with keeping other countries from developing nuclear programs, which isn't a bad thing--after all, if someone like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had the bomb, he really could get rid of all the homosexuals in Iran--but it also places every other nuclear power in a position of hypocrisy. Non-nuclear weapons have achieved a level of precision that eliminates any need for a nuclear strike (if there ever really was one), so why not destroy these things and get them off the market? The more I think about this, the more I like it. But do we have a net big enough to hold all these things when we throw them into the sun?
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Obama: Superman
