Monday, July 6, 2009

We've Been Had!

President Obama recently finished negotiations with Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev over nuclear weapons stockpiles. Both leaders came out of the negotiations confident the meetings went well and also came out with an agreement to reduce the amount of deployed nuclear weapons by each country.

The grand total each country must reduce their deployed nuclear weapons by:.......25.

Yes, that's right, 25 nuclear weapons. Out of the near 1500 deployed nuclear weapons we're going to reduce the amount by twenty-five nukes. That's not much of a deal. The US and Russia can still bomb each other back to the stone age, what's the difference with 25 warheads?

Along with the miniscule reduction of warheads; Medvedev and Obama agreed to create a joint data exchange center. My question is, what happened to the one Clinton and Yeltsin set up in 1998? As far as I can tell they are working on the same thing...(Image reproduced from http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070423/070423_yeltsin2_hmed_7a.hmedium.jpg)

Obama, did you accomplish anything worthwhile?