Is START good for us?

[Praxeas]

Without even reading this new START treaty I was against it. Here is why

Russia vs the US? Our biggest concern internationally is Iran, Pakistan and North Korea it seems not Russia. Supposedly the Cold War was over..so why are we pressing the START issue as if we are back in the Cold War?

The Economy Stupid...START just seems like a distraction

In the past these treaties were always all one sided with the US bearing the brunt of disposing of their arsenal leaving Russia with superior numbers. The only ones that truly benefit is Russia and other Nuclear powers

From Fox news:

With a strong assist from an Obama administration determined to validate its embrace of Russia’s government, the Washington foreign policy establishment has successfully advanced a U.S-Russia treaty that at best could be irrelevant to today’s world, but in fact will make the threats we face more dangerous. This stems from the treaty’s flaws, which include:
• Moscow’s belief that the U.S. has agreed to limit our deployment of missile defenses, despite denials from the Obama administration. Our foreign policy establishment will now be further emboldened to block enhancements to our still-poor ability to stop incoming nuclear missiles from places like Iran and North Korea because they may cause Moscow to walk away from the treaty;
• Weak verification mechanisms that give cheating-inclined Moscow a further advantage;

• The treaty’s failure to address tactical nuclear weapons, where Russia holds a large advantage over the U.S. (Incidentally, thanks to a separate decision by President Obama, the U.S. now has no effective seaborne tactical nuclear systems with which to counter North Korea and Iran.)
• The prioritization of signing and ratifying a feel-good treaty over more urgent steps to modernize America’s nuclear arsenal, which is losing its deterrent quality as its reliability and safety decline after decades without testing and modernization.


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Because of it and a president who telegraphs profound weakness, America begins 2011 facing several foreign problems with the potential to become outright crises. Among them:
• The Iranian government, the central advocate of Islamism and terrorism, charging ahead with its world-changing nuclear weapons program.
• The North Korean government, which already has a nuclear capability, coming closer to starting a war it promises “will not be confined to the Korean Peninsula.”
• China declaring more and more of the Pacific as its own domain as it continues a rapid military modernization financed unwittingly by consumers in the free world; and
• An Islamist movement and its terrorist vanguard undaunted by President Obama’s simplistic “Muslim world” outreach, apologetic diplomacy and lawyerly treatment of unlawful combatants.


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