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| 2010-04-03 |
| by Frank Gaffney President Obama announced last Thusday that he had concluded a follow-on to the 1989 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. He characterized the cuts that it would make in the two nations' nuclear arsenals as a major step towards his goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons. In practice, however, the so-called “New START' accord will contribute primarily to the denuclearization of the United States and to making the world a more dangerous place. Accordingly, it would be more accurate to call it “False START.' The first thing to note about the Obama treaty is that it confers real advantages on the Russians. For starters, the Kremlin will have to make essentially no cuts in the numbers of its deployed strategic launchers, whereas the United States will have to destroy several hundred of ours. It is unclear at this writing whether such reductions by the U.S. will, as a practical matter, make it difficult – if not impossible – for America to preserve its strategic “Triad' of land- and sea-based ballistic missiles and long-range bombers. If so, there could be serious implications for strategic stability as the confidence of friends and foes alike in the robustness of our deterrent declines markedly. What is clear, though, is that we will be obliged to cut back our arsenal to match the lower levels that the Russians can afford to maintain at the moment. The advisability of such a step would be debatable even if it produced a genuine equality between the two parties. Unfortunately, the seeming equality thus established is deceptive in at least three respects: |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 It should be obvious to our Defense people that he is setting the country up for the kill. Why don't they do something? They are Constitutionally required to defend the country and the Constitution itself. This guy is openly an enemy. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2010-04-03 21:20 |
| #3 It also puts the US in a serious inferiority position. All our potential targets require the use of limited strategic launchers and warheads. Most of the Russian targets are within range of thousands of shorter range missiles and aircraft not covered under this agreement with thousands of nuclear warheads not covered under this agreement. That leaves nearly the entire Russian arsenal free to target the USA. And it's not like like the Russians to lie about something as serous as nukes. When the cold car ended it was discovered they only had 10,000 more warheads than declared by treaty. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-04-03 19:55 |
| #2 And the nuclear arsenal as a whole, plus the expertise required to maintain or recreate it. He's serious about this and is making rapid headway by all appearances. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-04-03 19:34 |
| #1 ...I have heard from several sources that the bombers - ALL of them - are going, and will be gone by the end of FY12. The timing will be perfect: it will be too late to save any of them, even with a Republican landslide, and the savings will go into ObamaCare. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2010-04-03 17:42 |