Tc/63; history proves you right on that –history being ‘all we got’ to make choices with –and if the treaty is so clear-cut, why has it been on the shelf since the early 90s? And why did Putin suddenly ratify, just as some strange mysterious financial attack glommed onto the left-wing turn of 2006 elections and brought in a president who has lied us into, with three vast hammer blows, a state of near-busted penury and the verge of Dollar panic?

And what does jersey know that senator Kyle, who has never lied to me, doesn’t know –despite his access and close work with a vast array of START II experts –in fact the same experts who’ve kept the treaty on the shelf since early Clinton I?

WTF has changed, besides the rise of a president that Nov 02 proved is not trusted by any folks but the most bought and/or least worried about preserving our system and way of life?

(and no, i do not believe that Obama is a naval vessel. i don’t think he can do 30 knots and naval vessels don’t wear ties anyway. i was making an allusion to an attitude)