On Friday Obama and the Japanese Prime Minister met to discuss a plan for global denuclearization. The statement was called the US – Japan joint initiative for a nuclear free world. The first step in this plan is to take action and develop key treaties which support arms reduction. These treaties will be enacted and they will continually call for less and less nuclear weapons. However I see one major problem in this equation – what will happen when Obama is out of office. The truth is that Obama has one of the worst approval ratings of any President in the past fifty years. If things don’t change, history tells us that when the nation is dissatisfied with one President, they tend to vote for the opposing party the next year. That is why Obama won this election, because everyone was tired of Republican leadership and President Bush. In my opinion it is likely that Obama will not receive a second term. If this is the case, a Republican will probably be in office. Whatever Obama accomplishes here with nuclear reduction will likely be undone by a Republican leader who wants to stockpile weapons to ensure that we maintain powerful and the global leader. I am not even offering a commentary on this, I am just stating that I think it will play out as listed above.
I suppose every visionary was rejected and the spectacle of doubt in his or her day. Perhaps Obama sees something that I don’t see. However in my opinion the world is composed of power hungry nations that will do anything for power. Giving up the greatest weapons ever developed in pursuit of global equality does not fit in with the pattern of history.
