Two by four said that treaties are not suicide pacts. I get this a lot. If I quote “turn the other cheek” they say the Bible is not a suicide pact. If I say Congress shall not prohibit the practice of Islam they say the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Well now the same guy that says I’m an idiot now says the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is not a suicide pact and we should pull out so we can transfer nuclear weapons to other countries. Guess what genius? If we do that, Russia will say “the NPT is not a suicide pact” and transfer nukes to Cuba , Bolivia, and Venezuela. Then China will say “the NPT is not a suicide pact” and transfer nukes to North Korea, Burma, and Vietnam. And pretty soon every tin-pot dictator in the world will have thirty or forty nukes pointing at the four winds. And some of these dictators might decide he needs cash and sell half of his stockpile to al Qaeda. But why would that be wrong? After all, the dictator could say, “My people need money to buy food, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is not a suicide pact.”