Why are steve and grape ape the same person ? I suppose thats the only way to get self-satisfaction . Would that be the same as you masturbating grape ape ?
actually steve is steve guy i'm me. put up proof if you know otherwise. masturbation? you want to know about that? sorry, but don't turn your hand holding with troof over this way. keep it over there and you two date all you want. that's yo biz.
now the topic is "Russian President: Obama a 'thinker... unlike other people' "
anything mature to add?
here i'll help you out:
"Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan are rarely compared for their similarities. But when President Obama signed a major nuclear weapons treaty with Russia last week, one could clearly hear echoes of the elder Republican in the young Democrat.
Ronald Reagan once lamented that the ?only value in ? possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used,? and wondered whether it would ?be better to do away with them entirely.? President Obama has taken up Reagan?s work, affirming ?America?s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.? Last week, he took two important steps toward that goal, concluding an arms reduction treaty with Russia and announcing a new U.S. nuclear strategy.
The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as New START, will reduce both nations? stockpile of nuclear warheads by 30 percent and impose stiff inspections so that each side knows that the other is complying. The Nuclear Posture Review ? the first overarching statement of U.S. nuclear strategy since 2002 ? stated that the United States would not develop new warheads and would not use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states who play by the rules and stay nuclear-weapon free.
But of course, the Cold War ended 20 years ago ? so does it really matter if the United States and Russia have a few extra warheads lying around? The answer is yes. Though the nature of the threat has changed, controlling the spread of nuclear weapons and materials is as important (and more difficult) than it was during the Cold War.
For decades, the grand bargain to keep states from going nuclear ? enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty ? has been simple: We (nuclear states) will reduce our nuclear stockpiles, if you (non-nuclear states) do not try to get the bomb. But the old bargain has been fraying.
Today, only five of the nine nuclear weapon states are party to the NPT. Countries such as North Korea, Pakistan and Iran have obtained or sought nuclear weapons in defiance of the treaty, while the United States and Russia maintain more than 90 percent of all nuclear armaments in the world.
And states are no longer our only worry. Keeping these weapons out of the hands of terrorists means that we have to lock down existing nuclear material. To do so, countries will have to cooperate to an unprecedented degree to monitor, detect, and control the production and transport of nuclear material.
Progress will be difficult ? nuclear negotiations are a contact sport. President Reagan realized this, and that?s why his administration took painstaking steps over many years to create the first START treaty, which helped ease Cold War tensions and led the United State and Russia to reduce their arsenals by 80 percent.
Taking this tough-nosed diplomacy to heart, the Obama administration took a similar approach. Late in the recent START negotiations, Russia tried a power play by re-opening delicate issues ? such as missile defense ? that had already been agreed upon, calculating that Obama needed a new agreement badly enough that he would fold. They were wrong. Obama threatened to walk away and it was the Russians who folded.
By staring down Russian brinksmanship, President Obama has reasserted crucial American leadership and shown that the United States can deliver when the stakes are high. By renewing U.S.-Russian disarmament, halting development of new warheads, and ruling out nuclear attacks on non-nuclear countries that play by the rules, he has shown that non-proliferation?s grand bargain remains viable, and it made it less likely that terrorists will get their hands on a bomb. The road ahead will be, if anything, more difficult, but this week?s events are at best the start of a sustained effort. Indeed, they make for a very, very good start."
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20100417/OPINION/304170002/Stacey-Chavis-Nuclear-treaty-continues-Reagan-s-work
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