Reagan Would Put A Stop To START

IBD Editorials ^ | December 15, 2010 | Staff

[Kaslin]

SDI: Despite claims by this administration, our 40th president would not have agreed to the New START treaty if it meant abandoning U.S. missile defense. He had that choice with the Russians and just said "nyet!"

When Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev met Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 1986, he hoped Reagan would be willing to trade his Strategic Defense Initiative in exchange for arms-control agreements and vague promises of making nice with America. But America held all the cards and didn't fold.

Reagan refused to negotiate SDI away. He opposed the proposed nuclear freeze and put Pershing missiles in Europe to counter the Soviet SS-20 threat. He put America's security in the hands of American technology, not the goodwill of its enemies.

That policy may be reversed with the New START treaty that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to ram through a lame-duck Senate with little, if any, debate. Despite the record, President Obama himself has claimed Reagan would have supported it.

No fewer than three times during a Nov. 18 meeting on the treaty, Obama took the name of the Gipper in vain, suggesting the man who won the Cold War urging peace through strength would sign on to a treaty that amounts to unilateral disarmament.

At one point in his opening remarks, Obama said his "is a concept of American national security that has been promoted by Ronald Reagan" and a succession of American presidents. At another point, he said: "As Ronald Reagan said, we have to trust, but we also have to verify. In order for us to verify, we've got to have a treaty."

[BobP]

Omama's unpredictable and dangerous because of his own incompetence.

Reagan BUMP....

[FrankR]

[Paul Ross]

BUMP!!!