The article that I am referring to was written by Howard James Hubbard who is Bishop of Albany, New York and chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace which is part of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Leon Lederman, a 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics and a professor of science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The article makes what I believe to be a very convincing case for ending nuclear proliferation, but it bases its argument on a very flawed fundamental; the authors write that “Humanity has a common cause: the search for good, meaning and purpose, and a commitment to improving the human condition.”
I don’t agree with that assessment of humanity. While there are certainly many people in this world who do believe in that cause for humanity, no doubt the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and many physicists who understand the danger of nuclear weapons, there are also many people in this world whose goal is quite the contrary. There are many in this world that have the goal of power and of control and doing evil with their power and control. If Osama bin Laden, or Ahmadinejad were to gain control of the U.S. which each certainly desires, he would do evil. Is there even, in anyone’s wildest imagination, a scenario where, for example women’s rights and Judeo-Christian beliefs would be allowed to thrive under such rule?
Nuclear weapons are a horrible horrible devices, but perhaps before we seek to eliminate nuclear weapons we need to remove or at least reduce evil in our world and in order to do that we must all recognize that there really is terrible evil in this world and we must protect ourselves and our friends from that evil.
Education, self-reliance, and accomplishment all based on freedom is the answer.
Dictated to Sony IC. Transcribed by Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Not a paid mention just written for my records.
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Nukes are only good if the enemy “thinks” you’ll actually use them. The new Commander-in-Chief would no more use a nuke then he would take Conservative advice on health care…not gonna happen..We might as well transfer ownership to Israel…They may need them against an entire neighborhood of very bad (evil) actors..
As for the Catholic bishops, well, they are well meaning in some ways, but on the whole, naive. The only reason these pantie-waist preachers even survive in a world full of evil hordes, is because of the US and our umbrella of protection over the free world.
So they can say what they want about ridding the planet of nukes, but until our obvious enemies , lay down their arms, we would be derelict in our duties to all who have sacrificed their lives, so a good part of the world can live free..