OPENING STATEMENT

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ISSUE: North Korea/Nuclear Deals and Sanctions

SPEECH:
Jill Stein will establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international
law, human rights, and nonviolent support for democratic movements around
the world. That means being a multilateralist. She says that, we cannot afford
to be the unilateral policemen of the world enforcing our own interest. She
will cut military spending by 50%. Stein will also close our 700 plus foreign
bases and end the United States role as the worlds arm supplier. She will
restore the National Guard as our primary means of defense. She has repeated
over and over that the U.S. should focus our foreign policy on human rights.
She will make us the leader in world peace.
In terms of North Korea and their nuclear capability, she wants us to lead
by example. Jill Stein has said, We should lead by virtue of global agreements
that also include us. We could get rid of MANY nukes as a first step because
we're so far ahead [in possessing more nuclear weapons than the rest of the
world]. She will agree to Russias proposal to reduce each country's arsenal of
nuclear weapons to one thousand each and remove our nukes from other
countries. Jill Stein will end all nuclear weapons design and research. And in
the Middle East, she will create a nuclear free zone and require all nations to
join. The US must take the lead in nuclear disarmament by itself starting to
disarm.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament states that nuclear weapons
have no legitimate purpose; nor would their use be legal due to civilian
casualties being unavoidable. Nuclear weapons have no real beneficial
purpose. The campaign points out that nuclear weapons dont solve any of the
pressing issues today such as: climate change, poverty, hunger, access to clean
water, overpopulation, cyber-attacks, etc. The campaign says that genocidal
and utterly immoral.
An article on Newsweek argues that nuclear weapons are in fact,
beneficial. They state that the disastrous consequences of using nukes is so
obvious that Even the craziest tin-pot dictator is forced to accept that war with
a nuclear state is unwinnable and thus not worth the effort. They point out
that there hasnt been a war between two states that possess nuclear weapons
and that The logic of nuclear peace rests on a scary bargain: you accept a small
chance that something extremely bad will happen in exchange for a much
bigger chance that something very badconventional warwon't happen.

This is a scary notion. But, Jill Stein will lead us to a peaceful world, without
nuclear weapons.