Miss the Cold War?

Let's take stock of what's happening in the world right now.  Syria is a disaster, and rapidly turning into a proxy war between the West and Iran/Russia/Hezbollah.  The U.S. is establishing a military presence in Jordan to train Syrian rebels, and leaving a squadron of F-16s there to establish a partial no-fly zone. 

Meantime, Russian President Putin takes every opportunity to tweak the U.S.  Besides supplying Syria with missiles, he's keeping a stolen Super Bowl ring, and won't release NSA leaker Edward Snowden to U.S. authorities. 

The Chinese are pissed too, because the White House went after Snowden in Hong Kong. 

And let's not forget Iran, all this stalling on nuclear talks has given them more than enough time to build a bomb or two, and Pakistan (already nuclear armed) is about to fall into the abyss of anarchy.

And what does President Obama want to do - he talks to Putin about nuclear disarmament.  Mutual Assured Distruction (Or MAD as its called) has been the only thing to keep the peace for the last 60 years or so - can you imagine how many times we would have fought the Russians or Chinese if the bomb wasn't around?  Nuclear weapons are the only thing keeping the U.S. and Russia from going to war right now.  So what if Iran or some other tin-horn republics get the bomb, we have enough to flatten them all so using them against us would be suicide.

My advice, don't eliminate nuclear weapons unless you want another world war.  I would rather the Cold War return.