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America has the world's largest, most threatening arsenal and global delivery systems. Besides Israel, it's the only major power with a first-strike nuclear policy against any country called a threat. Its drawdown plans will replace old weapons with better new ones, and so-called "missile defense" is solely for offense.
"Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multinational diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions play."
Fact Check:
Obama is pursuing the same policies as George Bush:
-- permanent wars and occupations;
-- record amounts of military spending at a time America has no enemies;
-- supplying arms and munitions to rogue state allies;
-- confronting independent ones with sanctions, belligerent threats, and more war;
-- subverting the rule of law;
-- pursuing a global jihad against human rights and civil liberties;
-- using Security Council pressure and intimidation to enforce policy and block constructive measures through vetoes; and
-- overall continuing America's hegemonic pursuit of "full spectrum dominance" over all land, surface and sub-surface sea, air, space, electromagnetic spectrum and information systems with enough overwhelming power to fight and win global wars against any adversary, including with nuclear weapons preemptively.
Under Obama, "the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climate challenges the world is confronting."
Fact Check:
Obama's House-passed "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" is environmentally destructive, lets corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel, and creates new Wall Street bubble potential through carbon trading derivatives speculation.
According to Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the "US stance retards progress at Bangkok climate talks" the way it's obstructed earlier efforts.
