US Congress wants to be “best friends” with Russia
Published: 25 June, 2009, 05:50
Edited: 24 December, 2009, 23:37
TAGS: Arms, Meeting, Nuclear, Medvedev, Russia, Obama, Politics, USA
With just two weeks to go before President Obama's visit to Moscow, nuclear disarmament is the hot topic in the US Congress, as Russia and America have only six months left to reach a compromise on a new weapons treaty.
With the clock ticking, both Republicans and Democrats are stretching out their hands in friendship. It seems that members of both parties want to make amends with Russia before the deadline passes.
“I think we can become allies,” said Democratic Rep. Diane E. Watson.
“Let’s reach out to each other, let’s forget the last ten years, and hopefully we can build a better world by being best friends,” agreed Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher.
But discussion about nuclear weapons inevitably raises other issues. Any talk of Russian and American nuclear disarmament almost always leads to questions about what to do with America’s proposed defense shield in Eastern Europe.
So perhaps before the US and Russia become “best friends”, they should first determine what to do with those ABMs.
So what gives in this nuclear dilemma?
“It’s essential that we use the nuclear shield as a bargaining position,” is how Rep. Diane E. Watson sees it.
But this is not some kind of bazaar, and even US officials seem to understand that Russia will not be simply bought out on the proposed defense shield in Eastern Europe.
“For us to try to go on and build something on our own – I could understand why Russia would look at that as something that could be threatening,” admits Rep. Dana Rohrabacher.
So what is the next step?
“Let’s scrap the current idea and get together and have an agreement to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and then build – the US and Russia together – a missile defense system that serves the cause of peace,” Rep. Dana Rohrabacher proposes.
Serving the cause of peace by reducing the world’s nuclear stockpiles? Now that’s the basis for a friendship that will truly last.
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Aren't people so silly, thinking NATO is a sovereign nation! Maybe your foolishness will be truly revealed, when you bluff is truly called! US and Russia is a powerful combination, whats in between, well it drops straight through onto the floor! Frightening isn't it!
My dear friends, you have all wrong. Each US congressman or senator, when elected, does exactly what french politicians do: whole that they want is to stay elected as long as possible. When I lived in the state of Washington; those representing the people knew who was the boss: Boeing and its employees. To obtain money from the congress for their state, incidently for the company procuring work; the politicians in Washington D-C and the electors in Seattle voted according to what they were told, was their best interest. As simple as that !!! Each state which has Military Industrial Complex's firms operate in the same money-talks' way (with a two partis' system, it is easy to master and no-one complain). To care or not to care about Russia, China, Europe or anybody else is irrelevant. Most politicians have a one track's mind, nothing else. It is rather sad, but just look around. Sorry Future Generations ! Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin