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Romney's Hit Piece on START: 'Thoroughly Ignorant'

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jamesfirecat7/07/2010 12:26:02 pm PDT

re: #42 captdiggs

Without writing such a treaty here, which I am not going to say I am qualified to do…I really can’t see a reason that unlimited defensive systems can’t be part of any agreement.

Fair enough, but here’s the problem….

By giving Russia a back door out (if they feel our defense is too strong they can build more) we’re more likely to get them to sign the treaty then if we didn’t give them such a back door, and most likely if they felt threatened by us having too strong a defense they’d just break the treaty and start building more anyway.


This isn’t like D&D or Harry Potter where we can place a curse on nations that break treaties without the treaty saying they could break it in such a manner….