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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2011 7 Comments

I posted numerous times before about the alleged ambiguity in the New START Treaty language regarding missile defense, and how in the rush for a lame duck, pre-Christmas ratification, the Senate ignored differences in interpretation rather than seek clarification from the Russians.The Russians consistently had voiced...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 2 Comments

I have kept away from writing about "news" generated from WikiLeaks disclosure of stolen U.S. diplomatic cables.  One of the main problems with using stolen diplomatic cables is that one is unlikely to get the full story in a single cable, leaving the ground clear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2011 10 Comments

Via The Telegraph:A "Black Widow" suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year's Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources. The unnamed woman, who is thought to be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2011 9 Comments

I do not think you listened to the State of the Union Address very carefully.  How do I know that you were not listening carefully?Well, I bet you thought Obama said that one of the benefits of the New START Treaty would be that the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2011 4 Comments

The New START Treaty follies continue.As posted here before, in order to obtain Senate ratification, the Obama administration offered certain understandings of disputed language in the Treaty regarding defensive missile systems.  Such interpretations were inconsistent with prior Russian statements as to what the Russians understood...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2011 7 Comments

The lame duck rush to ratify the New START Treaty is becoming an example of fools rushing in.One of the sticking points for Republicans opposed to the Treaty (13 Republicans voted in favor of the Treaty) was that the Preamble language seemed to link missile...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2010 8 Comments

That is a name I had not heard in decades. When I studied in the Soviet Union many of the East European students loved the group Boney M and were surprised that none of the Americans in our group had heard of it.  To them, Boney...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2010 2 Comments

Remember how important it was to pass New START during the lame duck session, rather than waiting until January?  We were told that anything less would have angered the Russians and, in Harry Reid's words, put nukes in the hands of terrorists.  Any attempt to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2010 0 Comments

The lame duck session has seen Harry Reid at his best or worst, depending upon your perspective.Reid held back a slew of substantial legislation to the last two weeks in order to try to ram through measures which, in a rational world, would have had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2010 10 Comments

Once again, Barack Obama is creating a phony crisis to rush a major legislative vote without having done the preliminary legwork to address Republican concerns.Think Stimulus and Obamacare.  This time, it arguably is the most important vote, the Senate ratification of the new START Treaty...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2010 1 Comment

President Obama's outreach to Russia constitutes a "strategic reset," according to Spencer Ackerman.The proof? The recent Joint Statement issued by the U.S. and Russia commemorating the meeting of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe River during WWII (emphasis mine): Now this is something you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2010 4 Comments

So reports The New York Times regarding a new conventional weapons system under development.In the recent arms control treaty signed with the Russians we agreed to count each of these new conventional weapons towards the nuclear weapons limits in the treaty, meaning that for each...

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