United Nations Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Conference Will Convene Tomorrow In New York City

According to today's Washington Examiner delegates of 189 nations will meet tomorrow in New York City for their twice in a decade meeting to discuss the forty-year-old treaty designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.  Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the only actual head of state taking part. 

According to the article:

"Departing Tehran on Sunday, Ahmadinejad signaled he'll use the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference to assail the U.S. and other nuclear-weapons powers for slow movement toward disarmament."

Great idea--let's start by disarming him.  The United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that she thought the Iranian President was coming to New York simply to divert attention away from Iran's nuclear program and confuse the issue.  This is one of the few times I agree with Secretary of State Clinton.

The article further states:

"Treaty members -- every nation but India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea -- gather every five years to review how it's working and agree on new approaches to problems. They do that not by updating the treaty, a difficult task, but by trying to adopt a consensus final document calling for steps outside the treaty to advance its goals -- in U.S.-Russian arms reductions, for example, or by strengthening the hand of the U.N. nuclear inspectors, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."

It seems rather obvious that this has not been a successful program.  The bottom line here is that until the free countries of the world actually unite against the tyrants of the world who are developing nuclear weapons, more countries are going to acquire nuclear weapons.  Because the free countries of the world are not in charge of the United Nations, the slowing down of the growth of nuclear nations will probably never be a reality.  The only real answer to the problem is for the free nations of the world to share and expand their missile defense programs in order to avoid being the target of a new nuclear nation.