American foreign policy and playgrounds?

Question

When are the americans going to understand that YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT!

Like Guantanamo Bay and their 'unlawful combatants' spiel doesn't work to well with the Geneva Convention, so telling Iran, North Korea etc.,
"we've got Nuclear weapons - but you can't have them" is no different than one child saying to another in a playground ''it's my toy - you're not playing with it" - and then the teacher having to say ''Johnny don't be mean - share the toys with Billy, there's a good boy'', followed by ''Oh! Miss" from an agrieved Johnny.

It doesn't work!

If, however, the americans want to do away with their nuclear weapons, then no one else is JUSTIFIED in having them - but they're not going to are they? So everyone else is going to want one!

This is playground mentality - it's not rocket science - it's just straight forward simple logic and human behaviour!

Does anyone else wish that nice man with the big shiny robot would ACTUALLY LAND in Washington park?

Answer 1

Yes, quite true. I've said here before that we just can't go to Iran, North Korea and other countries (no matter what we think of those governments) and tell them "hey, you'd better get rid of this nuclear weapons, or else", when we have thousands of nuclear warheads ourselves.
In the case of Iran for example, we tell them this and then they answer, "but look at Israel, it has nuclear weapons and no one's doing anything about it. Pakistan and India to our east have them and so does Russia to our north"
How do we answer this? How do we account for these doubel standards? Why should a volatile and violent state like Israel (regardless of our views about the nature of this violence) be allowed to do whatever it wants?
We go around talking about democracy and human rights but then allow dictators to opress their people if they follow our foreign policy. Of course international relations have their problems, but we should strive to find an equilibrium in such matters. We cannot, for example, continue to blindly support Israel, no matter what it does. I for one, do not see any strategic value to our support of Israel, but hey, if we want to support it, ok, let's do that, but at least let's at least support it logically and in a way that does not keep angering the rest of the world.
It is no wonder that the reputation of the USA is at an all time low. We should either really lead the world, in both action and words, or else just leave that to someone else, though i really do not see any country that can do such a thing.

Answer 2

\nyou are right of course we are all but gods children filing a divorce
from our father god
or worse the big children playing in the park along comes satan giving out real guns then saying lets play war
he planted the seed of hate because he hates the state of men being men
the image of their father
but what right to get children to fight ,so the plan is conceived and believed ,the fable of the re-elevation of satan revelations
and the fall of man
the unthinkable happens
and only god has grace ,and the children of the one father all losing face ,such a disgrace ,and satan has his revenge on that creation of man ,and destroys the whole place

Answer 3

when Iran goes nuclear, they become our best friend, just like Pakistan.

Answer 4

I USED TO LIKE THE FOREIGN POLICY OF AMERICA WHEN BILL CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT , VERY PEACEFUL AND NO TROUBLE ARUOND THE WORLD.