After a long weekend celebrating and reflecting on Freedom, I woke, once again, with the Obamaland Blues.  Mitt Romney's exegesis of New-START, the "revamped" nuclear weapons treaty, is grave in its indictment of what, at best, is irresponsible and, at worst, is willful in its undermining of American power. According to Mitt, New-START: -impedes our missile defense shield just as rogue nations become nuclear capable -explicitly forbids the United States from converting ICBM silos into missile defense sites -allows Russia to walk away from the treaty if the  United States seeks to shield itself from missiles - we must seek "permission."  -empowers Russia with broad latitude to amend the treaty with specific reference to missile defense -lets Russia escape the limit on its number of strategic nuclear warheads. ( Loopholes and lapses - carefully crafted by Moscow - provide a path to entirely avoid the advertised warhead-reduction targets) ...(Read Full Post)