Obama's Visit to Moscow

This past week on Monday and Tuesday, President Barack Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow this past week. The two were discussing plans to reduce the nuclear arsenal of both the United States and Russia. Both Obama and Medvedev signed a "joint understanding" committing their countries to nuclear arms reductions that would leave them between 15 00 and 1675 deployed warheads each. The 1991 START Treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) of 1991 allowed for 6000 warheads at that time. There was a follow-up treaty signed in 2002 which allowed for 2200 each and this signing reduces it even further. When START expires December 5, 2009, I will guarantee you they will sign another agreement that will dwindle the warheads down even further. Soon we'll be left nearly defenseless.

Another huge issue between the two countries is over the U.S. missile-defense system, in which Medvedev is opposed. The U.S. missile-defense system calls for a radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles based in Poland. In addition to the above issues, Obama and Medvedev were also speaking about the situation with Afghanistan.

In the times we're facing today in this world in regards to the nuclear threats of Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, and the threat of Islamic terrorism, how can we think about reducing our nuclear arsenal? Is Obama and the heads of state in Europe so naieve that they think reducing our nuclear aresenal is going to cause our enemies to like us? Quite the opposite. Making agreements with your enemies like reducing nuclear weapons isn't plausible. While America reduces its missiles, Russia and these other countries will keep on manufacturing them. What happens if a missile is launched at Hawaii or California and we don't have any missile defense system to protect us?

This all falls in line with the peaceniks of the 1960's who carried the slogan "Make love not war". They believed all war is wrong and we need to "love one another". They were very naieve about human nature. Man is born in sin and as a result we live in a very greedy, evil world. There are rogue countries that are agressors and they will bully other countries. There are some very brutal dictators that live in this world. Adolf Hiltler was one example during the 1930's in Nazi Germany. There are some dictators you can't negotiate with. There must be a means of deterrence to keep these brutal dictators in place. You don't make peace by destroying your weapons. America must uphold the policy of "peace through strength" as Ronald Reagan would say.

The very idea of turning your "swords into plowshares" is an impossibility in this sinful world. There will be a day when we will turn our swords into plowshares. That won't take place until the Millennial Reign of our Lord Jesus Christ.