From NRO’s The Corner:
Just checked in with a Republican source in the Senate about the state of play on the New START Treaty. Sen. Jon Kyl is being portrayed as a threat to national security for telling Harry Reid there’s not enough time to ratify the treaty in the lame-duck session. This source counters that the White House was slow to take Kyl’s calls for enhanced nuclear modernization seriously. It wasn’t until last Friday that the administration really began to engage him on modernization, flying officials out to Phoenix to brief him. It was only this afternoon that Kyl got a revised modernization plan from the administration…
Even if we get nuclear modernization – something we desperately need in order to maintain a credible nuclear deterrent – I still can’t see the worth of START. Russia is a dying nation, run by a megalomaniac dim wit who can’t see that playing bully-boy and tweaking our nose is doing nothing for Russia…China greedily eyes Siberia while Czar Putin pretends Russia is still a Great Power. Negotiating with Russia as if it mattered is just a waste of time.
At any rate, arms control treaties are pointless. Free nations don’t need such things between each other, while tyrannical regimes will cheat on whatever they negotiate. We’re expecting Putin to keep his word? On what grounds does anything suspect that Putin even knows what “honesty” means? For crying out loud, he’s a former KGB apparatchik!
Spike this stupid treaty and move on.
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