Posts Tagged ‘Pavel Podvig’

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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