Here's Charles Krauthammer on the mind blowing stupidity of the Obami in the START treaty signed today. It's almost as if Obama wasn't on our side in the negotiation. Sigh.
The real problem I think is … what the president of Russia said in his remarks after the signing. He emphasized again and again that the validity of the treaty that he signed today hinges on the maintenance of the status quo on defensive weapons. He said, in fact, [that] it’s a legal principle that the circumstances that are the basis of the treaty have to remain unchanged.
What that implies is if the United States does something new on missile defense — for example, if it were to reintroduce the systems it had originally intended to put in the Czech Republic and Poland, say, to reintroduce it in Romania or elsewhere — that would be a step that would undo the status quo and it would make the treaty null and void. That is the implication of what he said. The Russians would walk away.
And since we’re the ones who are going to have to be dismantling our missiles under the treaty — offensive weapons under this treaty — because we have a robust nuclear deterrent and the Russians’ is old and a lot more decrepit, we will have dismantled a lot of weapons. And the Russians reserve the right to walk away if we make them unhappy on missile defenses.
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