Romney's Russia Problem

[BDBoop]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/u...f-russia-sparks-debate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1

Mr. Romney signaled his stance toward Russia two years ago, when he argued that the New Start missile treaty with Russia should be rejected, putting him at odds with a long line of former Republican secretaries of state and defense. A number of arms control specialists said they were startled by some of Mr. Romney’s assertions, like fretting about intercontinental ballistic missiles mounted on bombers.

“It would be really fun to watch a Russian bomber with an SS-25 strung to its stomach try to take off,” said Steve Pifer, a former American ambassador to Ukraine and now director of the Arms Control Initiative at the Brookings Institution. “Some of the arguments just left people scratching their heads.”

Within hours, rebuttal pieces to Mr. Romney’s position, laid out in an op-ed article in The Washington Post, were being circulated among arms control experts. Mr. Lugar, who had spent decades working on arms control issues, publicly disparaged some of Mr. Romney’s arguments as “discredited objections.”

He seems a titch confused.

 

[California Girl]

On the bright side, he knows how many states are in our union.

 

[BDBoop]

I've yet to see proof of that.

 

[Avatar4321]

He understands enough to oppose the START Treaty

 

[ABikerSailor]

He understands enough to oppose the START Treaty

So, why is reducing the number of nuclear weapons a bad idea?

We've already got enough to destroy the world several times over already.

 

[naturegirl]

Well, I'm thinking his problems with France are minimal compared to Obama's since Putin won't even be attending the Camp David G-8 summit.

 

[Trajan]

On the bright side, he knows how many states are in our union.

I am willing to wager he knows what a corpsman is too...

 

[Trajan]

He understands enough to oppose the START Treaty

So, why is reducing the number of nuclear weapons a bad idea?

We've already got enough to destroy the world several times over already.

your simplistic question is the problem, the same one obama had.

 

[ABikerSailor]

He understands enough to oppose the START Treaty

So, why is reducing the number of nuclear weapons a bad idea?

We've already got enough to destroy the world several times over already.

your simplistic question is the problem, the same one obama had.

Actually, for a couple of years I was in the PRP program in the Navy, responsible for loading nuclear weapons onto aircraft platforms.

Sorry, but we've got enough and we don't need any more.