Obama Takes a Step Forward

Obama and Mevdvedev have agreed to make a new treaty that was based off START, a nuclear reduction treaty signed by Gorbachev and Bush Sr. In this new movement, each nation would reduce its warhead count to about 1500. If this is successful, Obama should be praised and it would look good on his administration, which hasn't been looking so hot. Another good thing about this is that if Russia and the United States could collaborate on this issue, there might be a new perspective to the Iran issue. Furthermore, Obama is going to talk to leaders of nations, such as Burma, that are heavily anti-democratic. This goes against the US tradition of isolationism. In some ways, this is good. But this is huge political risk. At home, conservatives are probably going to heavily mouth off Obama for doing such a thing. People might perceive him as weak, questioning that activity. However, no other president has spoken to leaders like this so you have to give the president some slack. If something good happens, kudos to Obama. If something bad happens, then his administration is doing pretty bad. Results, results, results.

But, "[o]ne definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome."

I think this quote is pretty true for just about everything that we've done and, personally, what I've done.