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In February 1945, three world leaders -- FDR, Stalin and Churchill -- gathered in Yalta, in Crimea, to discuss the fate of post-war Europe. At that conference, FDR signed away half of Germany, all of Poland, enslavement of the German population to the Soviet Union. While the conference suggested that liberated countries would be granted free elections, no enforcement mechanism was put in place, so the Soviets effectively annexed every piece of land they occupied.
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As for the offer of not using nuclear weapons on a NPT country or one that even if it hasn't signed the NPT, abides by it was simply a carrot to Iran and the DPRK that obtaining nuclear weapons will make them less secure not more. The statement wouldn't cover Al Qaeda.
Also, such a policy is not written in stone. Nothing binds the US to the policy nor prevents the US from simply changing it.
The charge that this has compromised US security is baseless.
As for the so-called and...