| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| New START Can Wait |
| Newt Gingrich
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| 发表日期 | 2010-12-13
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| 出版年 | 2010
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | If the Obama administration believes that New START does not limit America’s right to missile-defense development, then it has no principled basis for opposing the addition of clear language in the actual treaty codifying this right.
Other observers have raised additional concerns regarding the treaty, including several serious and substantive amendments that the Senate should consider and debate before bringing New START up for a vote. Rep. Buck McKeon, who will soon become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, recently wrote a letter that was signed by 14 of his committee colleagues to Senate leadership. They urged the Senate to delay a vote on New START’s ratification until some important outstanding national-security issues are resolved, including the need to upgrade our homeland ballistic-missile defense capabilities and increase funding for missile defenses in Europe in light of emerging multilateral missile threats. They also believe it is unwise to vote on New START before Congress gains a better understanding of how the impasse on missile defense will affect America’s long-term security.
While the House of Representatives has no constitutional role in the ratification of treaties, these members point out that the House has the responsibility of overseeing the funding, implementation, investment, and national-security-policy decisions that accompany such treaties.
These members of the House Armed Services Committee identify as their principal concern that “the Administration might cede to Russian demands and allow Moscow to shape U.S. missile defense plans in exchange for its adherence to New START.” They further point out that this concern is exacerbated by the unwillingness of the administration to provide Congress with the treaty’s negotiating record in order to allow the Senate to determine what executive branch assurances may have been made to Russia concerning missile defense.
The U.S. foreign-policy establishment, which supports this treaty, represents a Cold War-generation view that overvalues the Russians and undervalues the security threats to the United States from emerging nuclear states. They uniformly argue that New START should be ratified since it is merely a “modest” extension of their earlier efforts.
Modest treaties can wait until they have been thoroughly vetted. Modest treaties do not need to be jammed through the Senate on Christmas Eve like last year’s disastrous health-care bill–especially when twelve of the senators in the lame-duck Congress were recently defeated or are retiring and no longer have the mandate of the American people. Modest treaties can wait until March. In fact, it appears that no major treaty has ever been ratified by the Senate during a lame-duck session of Congress.
Today I released a letter to U.S. senators at a press conference of the New Deterrent Working Group, urging them to oppose the New START treaty until the House has been able to hold the deliberations that incoming chairman McKeon has called for, until New START codifies America’s right to develop its missile-defense systems without limitation within the treaty text itself, and until the Senate has been able to consider and vote on all other serious and substantive amendments that are offered. My letter also outlines the reasons why the Senate should be granted full access to the treaty’s negotiating history.
In the meantime, I urge Senators to first secure necessary national-security objectives–such as modernization of our nuclear arsenal and recognition of the uninhibited right of the United States to pursue a robust, multi-layered missile defense–before they concern themselves with securing modest ones. Doing so will send a much-needed message of strength and resolve to both friends and adversaries.
Newt Gingrich is a senior fellow at AEI.
Photo Credit: White House photo by Pete Souza |
| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
; Europe and Eurasia
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| 标签 | Armed Services Committee
; Cold War
; Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
; House Armed Services Committee
; Newt Gingrich
; Start
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/new-start-can-wait/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/249897
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