Krauthammer: Nonproliferation's Time Has Passed

[EveningStar]

Charles Krauthammer
Townhall.com
April 18, 2008

The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the hands of rogue states. This strategy was inevitably going to break down. The inevitable has arrived...
More, with reader comments (http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/04/18/nonproliferations_time_has_passed?page=full&comments=true)

[Wyatt_Junker]

The only way for nonproliferation to work would have been to nuke Pakistan once they first got theirs. 'Oh, you tested a nuke. Okay, great.' Then incinerate them all including every wannabe convenience store franchisee amd their slushie machines.

Otherwise 'nonproliferation' won't work. Its all or none. Incentives don't work. Talk doesn't work. Only fear and fire.

As we can see with Iran and its accomplice, the horse-nostriled El Baradai, world policy has never been nonproliferation. It has been strictly proliferation. About time we admit it and stop pretending we don't live in a dysfunctional world of denial and a UN like a family of enabling acoholics.