Dennis Kucinich is right on the issue of nuclear weapons. Appearing on television last month, Dennis Kucinich criticized presidential candidates like Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, who refuse to rule out using nuclear weapons against cities in other nations. Dennis Kucinich takes the only sane position: That the United States of America needs to work toward ridding itself of its massive arsenal of nuclear weapons.
He said, “I think we have to get rid of nuclear weapons. The idea that somehow by having nuclear weapons you make the world a safer place is essentially insane… Under my administration, we will work to abolish nuclear weapons and engage every nation which is a nuclear nation to do the same and every non-nuclear nation not to develop nuclear weapons.”
Holding nuclear weapons as a threat against the civilians of other nations is a terrorist tactic of the worst kind. If the United States maintains power above the rest of the world through such a terrorist threat, it is a power American citizens ought to be ashamed of.
Whether Kucinich is the right candidate to lead our nation into nuclear disarmament is a fair question. However, Kucinich is right to say that the next American President ought to lead the United States into a program of complete nuclear disarmament. A nation that needs nuclear weapons to be great cannot truthfully be called great at all.
(Source: Dennis4President.com, August 12, 2007)
