{"id":1795,"date":"2010-04-16T13:39:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2010-04-16T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:39:38","slug":"charles_krauthammer_gets_it_ri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Charles Krauthammer Gets It Right (As Usual)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t yet written about President Obama&#8217;s nuclear summit because I hadn&#8217;t found an article that summed it up for me.&nbsp; Well, the wait is over!&nbsp; Charles Krauthammer posted an article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/15\/AR2010041504663.html?nav=rss_opinion\/columns\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;today that kind of summed up my reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Krauthammer points out in his article that the two major threats to the world in the area of nuclear weaponry were ignored at the meeting.&nbsp; Iran was not on the agenda; as the world&#8217;s largest supporter of terrorism and racing toward a nuclear bomb, Iran should have at least receive a mention of some kind.&nbsp; The other threat that Mr. Krauthammer points out is Pakistan, a country that is friendly to us, but is rapidly&nbsp;increasing its plutonium production, which is adding to the world&#8217;s stockpile of fissile material every day.&nbsp; The government of Pakistan is not noted for its stability, and their status as a growing nuclear power could easily constitute a future problem.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Krauthammer points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;So what was the major breakthrough announced by Obama at the end of the two-day conference? That Ukraine, Chile, Mexico and Canada will be getting rid of various amounts of enriched uranium. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What a relief. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they&#8217;re capable of doing. If <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/28\/AR2010022800632.html\" target=\"\"><font color=\"#0c4790\"><em>Sidney Crosby<\/em><\/font><\/a><em> hadn&#8217;t scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there&#8217;s no telling what might have ensued.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Obama nuclear summit was another example of the charade this administration has become.&nbsp; There was a lot of pomp and circumstance and very little substance.&nbsp; Hopefully we can replace Congress and the President&nbsp;soon enough to prevent any permanent damage to our country or the world.<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t yet written about President Obama&#8217;s nuclear summit because I hadn&#8217;t found an article that summed it up for me.&nbsp; Well, the wait is over!&nbsp; Charles Krauthammer posted an article at the Washington Post&nbsp;today that kind of summed up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}