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As White House Assures Senate on Missile Defense, Obama Makes Reaganesque Offer in Prague

By | 04.08.10 | 8:38 am

While you were sleeping, Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev traveled to Prague and signed the New START nuclear-arms reductions accord, pledging to reduce their countries’ nuclear arsenals by 30 percent and cap the deployed missiles, submarines and bombers that deliver nukes at 700. The task before the White More…

Obama Administration Declines to Credit Missile Defense Shift for Positive Russia Results

By | 09.24.09 | 9:32 am

Whether it’s intellectual honesty or another case of a liberal refusing to take his own side in an argument, yesterday at the United Nations, several senior Obama advisers flat-out refused to say that last week’s decision to refashion ballistic missile defense in Europe had anything to do with some comments More…