Posts Tagged ‘New START Treaty’

Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 10:16pm

John Kerry’s Misinformed Position on the New START Treaty

Yesterday, Senator John F. Kerry wrote an op-ed in response to Mitt Romney’s piece published earlier this week in which the former governor argued against ratifying the New START Treaty.  Kerry’s op-ed was not only hyper-partisan but, as The Heritage Foundation’s James Carafano notes, quite inaccurate as well.  Kerry’s op-ed was little more than partisan drivel.  It lacked any sort of serious analytical rigor.  I would expect a better quality of analysis and thought from the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at 7:36am

Romney on the New START Treaty

It’s hard to pick President Obama’s worst foreign policy mistake.  As far as I’m concerned, his general conduct of American foreign policy has been subpar and a bit too Carteresque.  According to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney the New START Treaty is a leading candidate for this administration’s worst foreign policy mistake.  In an op-ed in yesterday’s WaPo, Romney presented a very clear argument in opposition to the New START Treaty.  I agree wholeheartedly with his advice that the treaty, in its current state, should not be ratified by the United States Senate.  Romney argues, “He [Obama] acceded to Russia’s No. 1 foreign policy objective, the abandonment of our Europe-based missile defense program, and obtained nothing whatsoever in return.”  I…

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