Foreign Policy "Fantasy Narrative" President Obama has shown himself to be ineffective in this area, negotiating many times against himself and many times negotiating from a position of weakness. He’s constantly giving while others tak
be interesting to see what that means. What is the greater concession that will be given?”
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SEC. LEHMAN: “And now the administration, after giving major concessions in the START Treaty, is proposing reductions down to 300 nuclear weapons, which would be absolutely crazy because of the fact that the current disturbers of the peace in the world are thought by the IISS to have over 300 new cells. So for us to, in effect, withdraw the security guarantee of our nuclear umbrella to our allies by even proposing those kinds of numbers is a gross abdication of leadership. So, this is a serious crisis and perhaps could be the central issue in the campaign.”