Obama's Support For American Hegemony

I'm getting a chuckle out of Obama's "new" stance on Nukes. Essentially the US will maintain the ability to annihilate all other nations while preventing them from developing the ability to defend themselves from imperial aggression, but try to reduce the cost to US taxpayers by disposing of the oldest and crappiest missiles.

Which is actually a very reasonable policy, just not a particularly meaningful change from the last X administrations.

I would have been impressed if he had announced that the US would scale back nuclear reserves to the point that only deathbed counterstrikes against other nuclear powers would have been feasible. That also would be beneficial to Americans, but I'm not so sure that a world without Team America: World Police would be a very nice place.