Political Column: Nuclear-Minded Obama

President Barack Obama’s notoriety for being a workaholic is becoming more and more apparent. Only weeks after Congressional Democrat’s oft-lauded victory for health care reform, Obama is already launching into nuclear disarmament.

April 12 will begin a two-day gathering of 46 world leaders from the world’s most powerful nations. The announcement of the meeting came several days after the United States and Russia agreed upon the Nuclear Arms Reduction Pact – a move that not only tested and renewed the bond between the U.S. and Russia, but showed a commitment towards eventual disarmament on a global scale.

Before any sort of total nuclear disarmament pipe-dream can even be fruitfully discussed, the administration is working on the prevention of the acquisition of nuclear arms to some of the world’s more tumultuous regions – specifically, terrorist organizations.

Tactically speaking, after signing their agreement with Russia and revising their own nuclear arms strategy earlier this month, the Obama administration is attempting to isolate nuclear-threat outliers like North Korea, Iran and several countries that house terrorists. Slowly, the administration hopes to make the idea more of a global priority.

Without much of a delay, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remarked on the moves by Obama, saying that the United States is a “sinister government that cannot be trusted.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also remarked the changes, referring to them as some kind of “cowboy” strategy on the country’s national television network.

From what many experts believe will be a tough road ahead with the mid-term elections on the horizon, the current administration is now working to accomplish more in a few short months than it had in all of 2009. Perhaps some would assume these landmark attempts to change the political landscape is some kind of ploy to keep the Democratic Party in control for the second half of Obama’s term.

But from what we have seen so far, Obama is finally embracing the kind of fast-paced movement he promised during his election campaign.