What Obama Should Really Apologize For--Disarming America

2016-05-26

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President Obama’s condemnation of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima today constitutes an implicit apology for their use against Japan to end World War II, whether he explicitly expresses regret or not. That outrage should prompt a serious national debate about what has been arguably the most dangerous of his “fundamental transformations.” He inherited a nation that was widely seen as the world’s only superpower. He will bequeath to his successor one that has at least two other nuclear peers and a planet awash with burgeoning proliferation.

President Obama’s condemnation of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima today constitutes an implicit apology for their use against Japan to end World War II, whether he explicitly expresses regret or not.

That outrage should prompt a serious national debate about what has been arguably the most dangerous of his “fundamental transformations.” He inherited a nation that was widely seen as the world’s only superpower. He will bequeath to his successor one that has at least two other nuclear peers and a planet awash with burgeoning proliferation.

Worse, President Obama has presided over the atrophying and obsolescence of our deterrent – epitomized by yesterday’s revelations that it relies on 1970s-era information technology. Most of its weapons are even older.

The world is not a safer place because Barack Obama has sought to rid it of nuclear weapons, starting with ours.

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