Posted by
Jon's Place on Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:37:11 PM
I was doing some organizing of link favorites, some I really have no memory of saving, let alone why, and I came across this from something called Global Security News Wire, paraphrasing, Senators on The Foreign Relations Committee have called for President Bush and President Putin to reaffirm the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
According to the story by Jon Fox (nope not me) the respective administrations are reluctant to reaffirm the 1991 START as constituted.
The salient quotes:
“'I urge the presidents to solidify new areas of cooperation on weapons of mass destruction,' said Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the committee."
"Biden said it would be 'the single greatest negative legacy this administration could leave' if it fails to work out a successor to the START agreement."
"Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried...said, 'he would take the senators’ *strong views* back to his State Department colleagues.'"
I'm not well versed in what the issues are, but it would seem to me that the world has changed just a wee bit since 1991, and further I am against anything that would undercut our SDI program.
Here's the link to the story (BTW, the NTI news wire seems fairly left wing, or more): http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2007_6_22.html#522EC0A6