The United States, once a defender of world peace and an international police power, seems today to be loosening the grip that has in the past prevented so much violence through out the world. At a time when "renegade" nations are arming with nuclear weapons, the Senate has voted not to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a document that in the President's words "is critical to protecting the American people from the dangers …showed first 75 words of 346 total…

…showed last 75 words of 346 total…it seems, were worried more about keeping the GOP strong than about protecting their children from possible nuclear devastation. What does this say about our ability to deal with crises on a grand scale if the government won't even consider the best interests of the governed? The senators who voted against this treaty are dangerously out of touch. Perhaps we need another fifty years on the brink of annihilation to bring them back to reality.