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October 31, 2007 at 05:37:43

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Even When Hillary Gets It Right, We Still Don't Believe Her

by Russ Wellen     Page 1 of 2 page(s)

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Every once in a while Hillary Clinton manages to make the left stand up and take notice. Recently Foreign Affairs magazine solicited an article from each presidential candidate on international security. Nukes of Hazard kindly excerpted hers.

First we wade through her table talk, with which we're now all too familiar. "If Iran does not. . . [blah, blah, blah], all options must remain on the table." You can almost see models of nuclear warheads lined up in front of her like piles of poker chips.

Then she (or, to be more exact, her nuclear policy wonk) writes, "Neither North Korea nor Iran will change course as a result of what we do with our own nuclear weapons."


A statement like this is a slap in the face to us arms control types. It runs contrary to all conventional thinking on nuclear nonproliferation, which holds that nuclear powers must lead the way to disarmament.

However, she qualifies this: ". . . but taking dramatic steps to reduce our nuclear arsenal would build support for the coalitions we need to address the threat of nuclear proliferation and help the United States regain the moral high ground."

Then Hillary hits all the right notes:

To reassert our nonproliferation leadership, I will seek to negotiate an accord that substantially and verifiably reduces the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals."

"I will support efforts to supplement the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty."

"I will also seek Senate approval of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by 2009." Ratifying that damned thing has long been a dream of arms control types.

As for actual goals, her first "would be to remove all nuclear material from the world's most vulnerable nuclear sites and effectively secure the remainder during my first term in office."

Finally: "We need to engage Russia selectively on issues of high national importance, such as thwarting Iran's nuclear ambitions, securing loose nuclear weapons in Russia and the former Soviet republics."

Back in June, Hillary announced that if elected she would create the position of Senior Advisor to the President for Preventing Nuclear Terrorism. (Incidentally, few are aware that when John Kerry ran for president he also proposed a cabinet-level office to prevent nuclear terrorism. Also, his nuclear platform was equally as sound as hers.)

Encouraging as all this sounds, the issue with Hillary is not, as she and her team persist in believing, how strong she is on defense. Her credibility is still her Achilles heel.

Hillary talks a good disarmament game, but do we really want someone with her finger on the button who we neither believe nor trust? The character of some her campaign contributors is a case in point.

First we have the mad "bundler," Norman Hsu, who gathered $800,000 from small donors. He laid these alms-in-reverse at the feet of the Clinton campaign before his day job as a fugitive was exposed.

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Russ Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues.

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