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A slightly different view of START

This one is from Vice Admiral Jerry Miller, USN (Ret). From the U.S. Naval Institute:

Vice Admiral: Obama was outmaneuvered by Russians on START
President Barack Obama was outmaneuvered by the Russians and should have abandoned the New START negotiations instead of seeking a political victory, says former nuclear plans monitor Vice Admiral Jerry Miller, USN (Ret).

�The Obama administration is continuing a dated policy in which we cannot even unilaterally reduce our own inventory of weapons and delivery systems without being on parity with the Russians,� Miller told the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, Md. �We could give up plenty of deployed delivery systems and not adversely affect our national security one bit, but New START prohibits such action - so we are now stuck with some outmoded and useless elements in our nuke force.�

After meeting resistance from several Republicans, the U.S. Senate ratified the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia by a vote of 71-26 on Wednesday.

�The Soviets/Russians were done in by Reagan and our missile defense program because they cannot afford to build such a system,� said Miller. �They instead try to counter our program with rhetoric at the bargaining table. And they won by outmaneuvering Obama. START plays right into their hands.�

Compare and contrast: Posted by DaveH at December 23, 2010 8:08 PM