Dennis Kucinich, of course, holds the same position, but Edwards actually has a chance of getting the nomination. He may have gotten my vote with this statement.John Edwards: “What America should do, and what I would do as president, is to actually lead an international effort to eliminate nuclear weapons from the planet. That’s the way to make the planet more secure.”
While the other candidates are talking about under what circumstances the use of nuclear weapons should be “on the table,” Edwards and Kucinich are willing to stick their necks out and confront the patent immorality of continuing to possess weapons which could annihilate the entire world in the span of an hour.
Setting aside the moral arguments (as if that could be done), the pursuit of the elimination of nuclear weapons would also set our nation on more solid ground when arguing that countries such as Iran should abide by the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and verifiably stop development of those weapons. If we as a nation are not willing to abide by our commitments under the treaty (to disarm), then why should we expect other nations to abide by theirs?
The bottom line is that the world’s primary existential threat is not from terrorism, as bad as that is. It is from the existence of nuclear weapons which may one day lead to the destruction of human civiliation and the loss of billions of lives.
