Our Naïve President

Yesterday's ratification of the START Treaty was a victory for our anti-nuke president and a defeat for America's defense.  Beltway Confidential has more:

New START passes, Cold War still over
It makes you wonder why it wasn't already an aphorism: Give Democrats control of the Senate and no electoral accountability, and in a matter of days they'll find a way to appease the Kremlin. In fairness, the Senate vote 71-26 to ratify the nuclear arms reduction treaty didn't strictly follow party lines, with 13 "yea" votes coming from  Republicans including the Northeasterners who are probably so comfortable with winter they'd rather spend theirs in Moscow.
But this is a big victory for Obama who set out early in his career, even during the 1980s, to crusade against nuclear proliferation. The problem is that it's not the 1980s anymore, and, well, Russia's not exactly nice to its neighbors or to us for that matter. I mean, aside from providing support to Iran, which itself is sending troops into Iraq, and killing our own troops. But to not pass a treaty this. very. instant. would be an "unmitigated disaster" says The American Prospect's Matt Yglesias:
If the United States has a secret plan to conduct a massive strategic arms buildup and launch a sneak attack on Russia, this is excellent news. If not, then non-ratification is an unmitigated disaster. We'll be left in the position of crossing our fingers in the hope that nothing goes wrong in Russia, and praying that Russians interpret this as a sign of utter political dysfunction rather than the existence of a secret plan to launch a nuclear first strike.
Well, he clearly prefers mitigated disasters. Because we could have negotiated a different treaty not in the lame duck. One that doesn't limit missile defense or have a weak verification system in the first place. Ed Meese and Richard Perle:

To cite a couple of problems, under New Start, there is no on-site monitoring of mobile missile production facilities. This procedure was deemed necessary under the original Start treaty to help keep track of new mobile missiles entering the Russian force. There are also fewer on-site inspections, and Russia may declare certain locations to be maintenance areas, which are not subject to warhead inspection.

Secondly, New Start's verification provisions would provide little or no help in detecting illegal activity at locations the Russians did not declare, are off-limits to U.S. inspectors, or are hidden from U.S. satellites. Inspectors would inspect only declared sites, a precedent that could be invoked by others—Iran, for example—and must be regarded as unacceptable.

Once the treaty made it past the Senate, thanks to 11 Republicans who are as spineless as Obama is, the president made another sappy statement about how this treaty would help lead us to a world free of nuclear weapons.

Bullcrap. That's naïve and simple-minded. The nuclear genie is out of the bottle and it's not going back in. The day after the world announces it's nuclear free some rogue nation or terrorist will announce "Gotcha! I've still got the bomb and now I'm in charge."

Does anyone seriously believe Israel will ever get rid of their nukes? Or India or Pakistan? Or China? Or Russia? No. America is the only country with a leader who would eagerly disarm his own nation in the name of some rainbows and unicorns delusion that it would make the world a safer place.

And why is that? Because Obama was raised to hate America and believes that we are in our heart-of-hearts evil. After all, he and his kind can never forget or forgive those two days in 1945 when we unleashed nuclear power to end a war that threatened to cost millions more lives and drag on for another two or three years. He can't see what the bombs prevented, only the death and destruction they caused.

 The "smartest guy in the world" isn't all that smart.

Today Russian leader and generals are smiling.  They know how to play this guy and they are doing so to their advantage.  The world is a bit less safe for Americans.