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2010-02-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Trust but Verify NOT in the new arms treaty?

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Posted by 3dc 2010-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Another rookie mistake?

Posted by gorb 2010-02-13 02:53|| 2010-02-13 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Why do you sound surprised? Not to say that you shouldn't BE surprised. But let's be honest; this is what we have all come to expect. Sad - yes. But true.

Posted by Betty Jerenter8589 2010-02-13 02:55|| 2010-02-13 02:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Lots of technical detail, including whether the Russians can 'inspect' our ballistic missile defense launchers.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-02-13 06:54|| 2010-02-13 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 What is the purpose of such treaties in a post-cold war world?

Posted by john frum 2010-02-13 12:04|| 2010-02-13 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 to get a photo op while bargaining away any military/tech advantages for a pack of lies?

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-13 13:02|| 2010-02-13 13:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Worse, Obama and his Commissars have linked defensive anti-missile systems as the equivalent of city destroying ICBMs.

Posted by ed 2010-02-13 13:07|| 2010-02-13 13:07|| Front Page Top

#7 John, the previous disarmament treaty had expired. This time around the Russians demanded new negotiations and O caved because it fits his agenda and those of his appointees. The ASD for Nuclear, Bio and Chem and the head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency both come from the Nunn Lugar crowd on Capitol Hill. They believe that if we just show we're not threatening the other sides will happy set aside their own capabilities - and they point to the previous treaties with Russia as proof, IIUC.

Posted by lotp 2010-02-13 18:32|| 2010-02-13 18:32|| Front Page Top

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