Tuesday, December 21, 2010

New Start's Old Illusions

OpinionJournal.com  "The good news is that New Start could have been worse. Before the treaty arrived at a Senate vote, Arizona's Jon Kyl negotiated useful commitments and clarifications from the Obama Administration on missile defense and nuclear warhead modernization. Senator Kyl is giving the idea of negotiating with ourselves a good name. Absent these commitments, New Start was insupportable. "

Charles Krauthammer  "Moreover, Obama's idea that the great powers must reduce their weapons to set a moral example for the rest of the world to disarm is simply childish. Does anyone seriously believe that the mullahs in Iran or the thugs in Pyongyang will in any way be deflected from their pursuit of nukes by a reduction in the U.S. arsenal?  The TW ran this some time back, but it is important enough to run it again.

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