Obama v. Kyl Posted by Adam Blickstein

This is productive engagement on ensuring American and global security:

I have outlined a comprehensive agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. In Moscow, the United States and Russia announced that we would pursue substantial reductions in our strategic warheads and launchers. At the Conference on Disarmament, we agreed on a work plan to negotiate an end to the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons. And this week, my Secretary of State will become the first senior American representative to the annual Members Conference of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

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We will pursue a new agreement with Russia to substantially reduce our strategic warheads and launchers. We will move forward with ratification of the Test Ban Treaty, and work with others to bring the Treaty into force so that nuclear testing is permanently prohibited. We will complete a Nuclear Posture Review that opens the door to deeper cuts, and reduces the role of nuclear weapons. And we will call upon countries to begin negotiations in January on a treaty to end the production of fissile material for weapons.

And this is empty political posturing and obstructing American national security that is more at home in 1989 or 1999 not 2009:

But on ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, another pillar of Obama’s nonproliferation strategy, Kyl said he wouldn’t budge.     

“I will lead the charge against it and I will do everything in my power to see that it is defeated,” he said. That’s no empty threat from Kyl, who led the successful opposition to ratification when the treaty was brought to the Senate in 1999.

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As far as I know Kyl’s November 21 floor speech also tries to blame the Obama administration for Russia’s plans to deploy the road-mobile RS-24 missile, a new, multiple-warhead version of the single warhead SS-27.