... and if this could happen, it could really be bad for America, because our time is running out to deploy antimissile defenses against the coming missile capabilities of North Korea and Iran. By definition, any effective ABM system would "weaken" relative Russian capabilites, and the part about not converting old SSBN's and bombers for ABM work would rob us of one of the most obvious cheap means of deployment of such systems.
By the time we got a real President in office, in 2013, there would then be a new treaty hurdle, and lots and lots of time lost to Obama's fecklessness.
And do you really think the Russians would cry too hard if the Iranians took out a West European or American city?
The really crazy part of this is that even a small-scale nuclear attack on America that got through due to our lack of missile defenses would be politically disastrous for the Democrats, for two reasons:
(1) They'd be blamed (and rightly so) for blocking missile defense, and
(2) Most of the dead would be Democrats, since their party is strongest in the big cities.
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By the time we got a real President in office, in 2013, there would then be a new treaty hurdle, and lots and lots of time lost to Obama's fecklessness.
And do you really think the Russians would cry too hard if the Iranians took out a West European or American city?
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If it had been proposed by, say, Sam Nunn instead they'd be all for it.
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(1) They'd be blamed (and rightly so) for blocking missile defense, and
(2) Most of the dead would be Democrats, since their party is strongest in the big cities.
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