President Ronald Reagan always said when dealing with the Russians that we must trust but verify. Apparently Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns feels the same way.After President Obama announced during a speech in Berlin his intentions to negotiate with the Russians to reduce America’s nuclear arsenal by one-third, Johanns said such reductions would create unnecessary strategic risks. He also said it is a shortsighted policy that was decided without Congressional input. He believes the plan ignores the dangers posed by a nuclear North Korea and Iran. Johanns said, "The Cold War may be over but we still face dangerous threats as rogue nations like Iran and North Korea work to develop nuclear arsenals. This announcement ignores the fact Russia has not complied with previous arms control treaties and that changes to our nuclear arsenal should not be made through executive fiat. The Administration owes it to the American people to explain how this impacts our national security and that of our closest allies. Simply put, now is not the time to draw down our defenses or weaken any part of our nuclear triad."The Russians are not to be trusted. Yalta in 1945 taught us that, Nixon’s détente policy with Russia taught us that, when is President Obama going to learn that?
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:55:13 +0000
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