Dangerous Rush for New START

Giving away the house: Top Democrats have been pushing for passage of the new START Treaty with the Russians, even though the treaty demands unilateral cuts of U.S. nuclear strategic weapons, limits U.S. nuclear defense implementation, and ignores other threats — like China. (Photo credit: AP Images)

Item: In the Wall Street Journal for November 24, 2010, Vice President Joseph Biden, in an op-ed piece entitled “The Case for Ratifying New Start,” insists that “trust and confidence in our relationship with Russia would be undermined without Senate approval of the New Start Treaty.”

Item: In the Washington Post for December 10, the last five Secretaries of State for Republican Presidents say the treaty “deserves GOP support.” Henry Kissin­ger, George Shultz, James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger, and Colin Powell assert, among other points, that “New START preserves our abilities to deploy effective missile defenses.”

Item: In an editorial in its November 22 issue, Aviation Week & Space Technology notes that “many concerns” about the treaty have been “expressed by Republican senators, the chief ones being whether funding for modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is sufficient and whether New Start might encumber the deployment of missile defenses, including in Europe. These are certainly legitimate concerns.” Nevertheless, the editorial says the treaty should be ratified because “the risks of delaying implementation of New Start are too great and the potential for getting a better deal is too small.”

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