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Quote by: Scribbler1 I agree that WMD are definitely something I'd not want to see flourishing around the globe, but just WHO "allowed" US to have them? The U.N., or ourselves by the virtue of not having anyone else strong enough to tell us not to? |
The hidden assumption is that everyone is entitled to them, or nobody is entitled to them. The other one is that the UN is a font of legitimacy.
We got them because we were the first to build them, and we're pretty lucky that it was us first (though luck had little to do with it). And we deny them to others because some of us believe in the things America stands for (gee, what's your response to that statement going to be?), and keep them out of the hands of people who would use them for tyranny/killing the Jews/to blackmail America/etc.