New START Treaty

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Now the current President has basically said we won't fight back to the best of our ability if attacked by something just as harsh as a nuke, such as bio or chem attack.

Right that. just that virusses do not go Bang! does not mean they are the more harmless weapon. They are not, and they are not called for no reason the "hydrogen bomb of the poor man".

On a side note, Israel has declared to boycott the nuclear summit in Washington, fearing that it will be abused by Turkey and Syria to attack and trying to weaken Israel by putting it'S arsenal on the agenda, while ignoring Iran. Obama will not be pleased by the Israeli decision. And Israel would be damaging it'S own vital interest of caring for it. A German newspaper quotes a close adviser to Netanyahu with having said: "Obama is a total disaster for Israel". In other words: the ice age is set to most probably continue, until Obama leaves office, or another, more leftist Israeli government takes over.

Turkey's Erdoghan recently closed ties with Iran, calling it a close friend and defending it's nuclear ambitions, also saying that Iran like any Muslim country never can do anything that could be called "wrong" because as an Islamic country it cannot do any wrong. And this in a time when the Turkish Imams started legal actions to topple secularism and getting legal and political immunity from the law, end governmental overwatching of mosques and Imams, and getting equal power over turkish society like the government. Erdoghan's fundamentalist AKP is going conform with almost all these demands, much of these demands will be accepted. Which essentially mean'S the end of the current constitutional state order and the end of Ataturk'S attempt to keep Islam in check by implementing laws for a secular society.

http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/a...-sprengen.html

Turkey is no ally for us. High time, very high time that the fools in Washington finally get it. American idealistic thinking and shortsighted politcal pragmatism is no match for Islam's archaic energy. The changes in Turkey since the rise of the AKP are worrying, very worrying. They vast majority of the group of secular, West-oriented Turks are worried, too. add to this the growing ultranationalistic sentiments and the dream for restablishing a post-osmanic dominance. If a comparable thing would take place in Germany, all you guys already would have gone yelling and shouting.

START does not effect North Korea. Not Pakistan. Not Iran. All these are challenges that Obama has no answer for. So do not overestimate START. and more challenges like these countries are likely to appear in the forseeable future.