Obama calls for ban on production of fissionable materials

This seems rather short sighted as well as high handed and arrogant. [Link]

Moe Lane, on Barack Obama’s plans to push for a worldwide ban on all fissile material:

In other words, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) just informed at least four of our allies, one friendly neutral power, one of our rivals, and not incidentally, us, that he wants to turn off the lights: and he’s also told a future strategic rival that the round-eyes are still dedicated to holding down the Middle Kingdom. Don’t think that they won’t notice: don’t think that this won’t appall some, and confirm all the stereotypes of the rest; and don’t think that the aforementioned rivals are going to be as tolerantly amused at the simplisme naif as the French will be.

Foreign Relations 090, Senator: First, do no harm. It’s a simple concept to learn.

Gee. Maybe he shoulda just stuck to the whole anti-”anti-” campaign.

Interestingly, this is what American hegemony and cultural arrogance truly looks like — especially when juxtaposed against some of our other “hegemonic” and “colonialist” impulses, like, say, pushing on those not historically readied for such concepts self-determination, natural rights, and the kinds of bourgeois Enlightenment principles that can be readily deconstructed by those who’ve discovered that man is responsible for the creation of his own paradigms, and that no metaphysical necessity or objective moral reality intrudes upon the formation of myriad worldviews, each of which needs be “judged” in the pragmatic context of contingency, irony, and solidarity: the give and take of consensus as governed by persuasion and will reinforced by state force.