Arms Reduction Treaty Signed in Prague

Well, here it is just about 16 months after my last—and first—post. It's fitting then, that Prague should be in the news. Great that that wonderful historic city should be the site for signing an arms reduction treaty and opening talks for a nuclear weapons strategy.

I can't feel too badly for taking so long to write entry #2. Not when I think how long it has taken for the US & Russia—and the world— to get to this point in arms negotiations. If I do want to feel badly I'll save it for regretting that the nations of the world missed an opportunity in the 1980s and 1990s to control weapons to keep them out of the hands of rogue nations and individual terrorists—and each other. Warnings from the U.S.'s late-20th Century Cassandras—LANAC, the Freeze, PSR, Concerned Scientists and others—went unheeded. Maybe we now understand the consequences of the proliferation of such weapons. Although I am an optimist in general, I have to admit based on the health care "debate" that I have little expectation that our Senate will act as statespersons when it comes to ratification. Instead of rational, intelligent debate, we're probably in for a great deal of posturing and polarizing.