France to Cut Nuclear Arsenal

A great move in my opinion by France. While the message from Sarkozy is still strong against Iran for their alleged desire to acquire nuclear weapons technology, he still makes the point of starting to reduce the massive stockpile of weapons that France possesses.

The aspect of this that gives me pause, however, is the fact that he explicitly named Iran as the future enemy of The West. It appears as if the super powers of the world are aligning the us vs them as being The West vs Iran and possibly China and/or Russia. While they are possible enemies and definitely economic powers, did we learn nothing from the Cold War? Will we ever be able to get past the point of pointing guns at each other and realize that the best way to settle conflicts is with diplomacy and talking? Enough of the rhetorical questions for now.