US hypocrisy.

The government of the US corporations under Obama continues with the policies of Bush when it comes to most issues. On nuclear weapons it is just about impossible to tell them apart. Their friends they will allow to have nuclear weapons. When was the last time anybody heard the US government mention, never mind criticize the Israeli regime for its stockpile of nuclear weapons which are completely outside the non proliferation agreement and held to launch at other Middle Eastern countries. No it holds its fire for North Korea and Iran. If Iran goes ahead with nuclear weapons the US or Israel are just about certain to bomb them. Pakistan is falling apart and yet over the last years the US at best allowed them to develop a nuclear weapon and some reports say actually helped them to do so. They more recently helped India along the same route. And now I see that the US is sharing nuclear technology with the United Arab Emirates. And of course they are moving to set up nuclear weapons in Poland claiming they are there to defend against regimes in the Middle East when they are actually there to strengthen them against Russia. Meanwhile the US itself sits on a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons. Its policy is. We keep and expand our stockpile. There is no situation the US governments and military and corporations would consider doing away with their nuclear stockpiles. Our friends we will let develop their nuclear weapons. Those countries we see as enemies or potential enemies or rivals we will block getting nuclear weapons. 

We in Labor's Militant Voice believe that all nuclear weapons should be done away with. But this is only possible by the international working class rising up and building a Democratic Socialist World Federation. 

Some might say that it is okay for the US to have nuclear weapons. After all they would never bomb anybody. People forget that the US is the only country in the world to use nuclear weapons against another people. In this case against Japan.  The US is no more "qualified to have nuclear weapons than any other country." Under the deepening crisis of capitalism, unless capitalism is overthrown, increased wars between bigger countries are inevitable. In these, countries will use all the weapons they have. Including nuclear weapons. Does anybody think the US would hold back in using its nuclear weapons. It did not in the past and it will not in the future. 

We must do away with all nuclear weapons. This can only be done by the working class carrying out a world wide socialist revolution and establishing a Democratic Socialist World Federation. 

Sean.