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The New START Treaty:

President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia

By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: December 14th, 2010



http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100068351/the-new-start-treaty-president-obama-is-pushing-for-a-monumental-surrender-to-russia/




The Obama administration has an impeccable track record of caving in to Russian demands, as part of its controversial “reset” policy. Last year, it threw key US allies Poland and the Czech Republic under the bus, ditching plans for Third Site missile defences in deference to Russian opposition. It is now planning another surrender to Moscow, by pressing for Senate ratification of the new START Treaty in the lame duck session of Congress.

Instead of allowing the newly elected Congress to vote on the treaty, the Obama administration is trying to ram New START through without proper debate. No major treaty has ever been forced through Congress in a lame duck session.

There is mounting opposition in Washington to the New START Treaty, which would significantly weaken US security by undermining America’s ability to deploy an effective global missile defence system. Dozens of senators, as well as several leading likely Republican presidential candidates are opposed to the Treaty, including Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich. As Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina has warned:

The START Treaty could severely weaken America’s ability to defend our people and our allies against missile attacks from nations like Iran, and we need all of the facts on how this treaty was agreed to… The newly elected Republican senators have signed a letter asking our leadership to postpone debate on START until they take office in a few weeks and have ample time to review the details. Americans didn’t vote in November to ram through the Obama administration’s wish list this December.

As part of its campaign to woo opponents of the Treaty, the Democratic White House has claimed that Ronald Reagan would have backed it, a simply ludicrous assertion. As Reagan’s attorney general Ed Meese, and Assistant Secretary of Defense, Richard Perle noted in The Wall Street Journal, the Gipper would never have backed an arms control agreement that encumbered “the pursuit of advanced ballistic missile defense technology”:

There are many reasons why this treaty falls short of those negotiated by President Reagan. For one thing, its verification regime is inadequate. For another, it gives the Kremlin an unwarranted influence over the structure of our nuclear deterrent. Most important, it will almost certainly reduce our freedom to deploy vital defenses against ballistic missiles.

Moreover, the administration is asking a lame-duck Senate, dominated by a party that was rebuked at the polls by the electorate, to vote for this major arms-control treaty, in contravention of the settled traditions of our country—a tactic Reagan surely would have deplored.

Simply put, the New START Treaty is a staggeringly bad deal for the United States, and an extraordinarily good one for Vladimir Putin’s increasingly hostile and authoritarian Russia. President Obama needs to respect the will of the American electorate and allow the new Senate to vote on the Treaty, and fully scrutinise and debate the details of an agreement which, if ratified in its current form, will dramatically undercut America’s global missile defences. The White House is pressing for another monumental surrender to Moscow which will only strengthen the hand of a key US adversary.

Tags: Barack Obama, Jim DeMint, missile defence, New START, Ronald Reagan, Russia

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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2010, 07:35:55 PM »
The support for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, in the United States is broad and deep. It has overwhelming bipartisan support from a who’s who of former high-level foreign policy officials. It has the unanimous support of the top brass of the U.S. military. It has the backing of the directors of the nuclear weapons laboratories. More than 80 percent of the American people support ratification of New START.

A who’s who of former high level foreign policy officials from both parties support the treaty.

    * Six former secretaries of state: Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, George Shultz, James Baker, and Henry Kissinger

    * Five former secretaries of defense: James R. Schlesinger, William J. Perry, Harold Brown, Frank Carlucci, and William Cohen

    * Five former national security advisors: Henry Kissinger, Colin L. Powell, Samuel Berger, Brent Scowcroft, and James L. Jones

    * No former secretaries of state or defense, or former national security advisors oppose the treaty.

The New START agreement boasts the unanimous backing of the top brass of the U.S. military.

    * Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Vice Chairman General James Cartwright; and the heads of each branch of the military and the commander of U.S. Strategic Command all support New START.

    * General Patrick O’Reilly, the head of the Missile Defense Agency, supports New START and says it “reduces the constraints” on U.S. missile defense.

    * Eight U.S. strategic commanders support New START: General Larry Welch, General John Chain, General Lee Butler, Admiral Henry Chiles, General Eugene Habiger, Admiral James Ellis, General Bennie Davis, and General Kevin P. Chilton.

    * No former U.S. strategic commanders oppose New START. • Retired Adm. William J. "Fox" Fallon, who was head of Central Command and Pacific Command: “this is an absolute no-brainer."

    * Retired Lt. Gen. Dirk Jameson, the former deputy commander of U.S. nuclear forces: "[It is] quite puzzling to me why all of this support [for New START] … is ignored. I don't know what that says about the trust that people have and the confidence they have in our military."

Nuclear lab directors back New START.

    * The directors of three national nuclear labs—Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia—wrote a letter on December 1, saying they were “very pleased” with the Obama administration’s plan for modernizing the nuclear complex and that they believed the United States could lower its strategic forces to 1,550 under the New START treaty.

    * Tom D’Agostino, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, wrote, “Both the New START treaty and modernization are in the national security interest. The Senate should approve both.”

    * Linton Brooks, the former head of the National Nuclear Security Administration under the Bush administration, said he would have “killed for” Obama’s nuclear budget and he urged ratification of the New START treaty.

The American people overwhelmingly support New START.

    * CBS News Poll: 82 percent of Americans said they support the New START treaty.
    * CNN Poll: 73 percent of Americans believe that the United States should ratify the treaty.
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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2010, 09:40:15 PM »
 I knew that
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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2010, 11:27:52 PM »
"The New START agreement boasts the unanimous backing of the top brass of the U.S. military."

Getbiggers know more about military needs than the uS military.  Sweet!

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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2010, 06:58:04 AM »
"The New START agreement boasts the unanimous backing of the top brass of the U.S. military."

Getbiggers know more about military needs than the uS military.  Sweet!
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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2010, 07:00:00 AM »
Funny - when the military was all for going into Iraq and said there was WMD - you guys thought they were FOS. 

Go figure.

 

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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2010, 10:05:24 AM »
Funny - when the military was all for going into Iraq and said there was WMD - you guys thought they were FOS. 

Go figure.

 

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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2010, 10:13:53 AM »
Funny - when the military was all for going into Iraq and said there was WMD - you guys thought they were FOS. 

Go figure.

 

you know as well as i do the military has to do what the pres wants them to do

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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2010, 10:16:18 AM »
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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2010, 10:49:29 AM »
Major backfire.
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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2010, 11:00:14 AM »
The list of leaders (of BOTH parties) who support this bill is STAGGERING.

You get some people who are gonna scream no matter what obama does.

In this case, it's the smart and experienced people all agreeing on one thing - and all the angry people believe something else.  Who ya trust?  ;)

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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2010, 11:38:40 AM »
Except when it comes to 911 cts right 240?   Then all of these same people you now support for this are covering something up right? 

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Re: President Obama is pushing for a monumental surrender to Russia w START
« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2010, 11:42:41 AM »
The list of leaders (of BOTH parties) who support this bill is STAGGERING.

You get some people who are gonna scream no matter what obama does.

In this case, it's the smart and experienced people all agreeing on one thing - and all the angry people believe something else.  Who ya trust?  ;)

That is precisely the real reason holding this thing back from being advanced. Simple politics. If this thing passes it will be a major win for Obama so rethuglicans are doing EVERYTHING in their power to stop it regardless of the fact this is an issue most of them want to move forward.
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