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Published: 11/16/10

Message to GOP: Don't Kill START Just to Spite Obama

By Barbara Slavin - AOL News

(Nov. 17) -- The lame duck Congress faces two important decisions and should not let partisan politics get in the way of national interest. First, it needs to extend tax cuts for middle-class Americans. Second, it needs to ratify a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. The first is a no-brainer at a time when nearly 10 percent of Americans are unemployed and the recovery from the worst recession in half a century is anemic at best. But the second is also a no-brainer. Especially for those who believe that Russia is still a threat to America two decades after the end of the ...

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Published: 08/3/10

Opinion: A Fresh START Between US and Russia

By Barbara Slavin - AOL News

(Aug. 3) -- In the long history of arms control treaties between the U.S. and Russia, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is a modest affair. It sets a limit for the U.S. and Russia of 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads -- down from 2,200 under a 2002 pact. Russia is already at or below the limit of 800 delivery vehicles. Even if START is ratified, the U.S. and Russia can still destroy each other -- and for that matter, the entire world -- several times over. Plus, the biggest nuclear menace to mankind today isn't a doomsday scenario of battling superpowers, but that a small group ...

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Published: 07/26/10

BP-Lockerbie Connection Raises Tension Between U.S. and U.K.

By Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily

LONDON --The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 people (including 190 Americans) over Lockerbie, Scotland, continues to be an open wound for many in the United States. The case is now proving to be a diplomatic wound between the United States and the United Kingdom as well. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee planned to hold hearings Thursday on the circumstances surrounding the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted by the Scottish government in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison. But late Tuesday, the hearings were canceled when key Scottish and ...

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Published: 06/15/10

Gary Brooks Faulkner: Will It Take a Vigilante to Get Osama Bin Laden?

By Paul Wachter - Politics Daily

Gary Brooks Faulkner, a 52-year-old construction worker from California, was detained Sunday by Pakistani authorities after being found with a gun, sword and night-vision goggles. Faulkner claims he was on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden. But while that my cause a few chuckles (including from the Pakistanis who detained him), the real joke is not on a would-be Rambo like Faulkner but on the U.S. government, which has yet to capture or kill bin Laden as we approach the nine-year anniversary of 9/11. After those attacks, the Bush administration allowed bin Laden to sneak out from Afghanistan ...

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Published: 01/13/09

John Kerry's Consolation Prize?

By David Knowles - Politics Daily

In the days and weeks following Barack Obama's victory in the general election, the president-elect set about assembling his cabinet, filling it with ardent supporters, political rivals, and even members of the Republican party. Through it all, many wondered when John Kerry's name would be called. Early speculation had it that Kerry would be named Secretary of State. Hillary Clinton took that spot. Then came less obvious fits: Education, Commerce, and Energy. In each case, another person was picked, leaving Kerry, one of Obama's most vocal campaigners, out in the cold. Well, here's the payoff. ...

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