The American Conservative

Letting the treaty expire would make both countries and the entire world less secure, and it would further damage relations with Russia.

Failure to extend the treaty will leave both countries worse off, and once the treaty expires it is difficult to imagine another one taking its place anytime soon.

Trump is bringing discredit on the very idea of engagement with Russia, and at the same time the U.S. gains nothing from his substance-free approach to diplomacy.

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Unfortunately, the president and his National Security Advisor have both expressed opposition to New START in the past.

The administration is once again subordinating U.S. policy to the preferences of its reckless clients in the region.

A genuine pragmatist would accept the nuclear deal for what it does and seek to maximize the benefits that the U.S. gets from it. A blinkered ideologue wants to burn it to the ground. Bolton is obviously the latter.

Corker distinguished himself in a bad way by being remarkably supportive of the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

Trump’s proposal to increase America’s nuclear arsenal would be enormously expensive, a violation of existing treaties, and the start of an unnecessary arms race.

The administration is reliably belligerent, but otherwise it is unreliable.

If Trump is now echoing the shoddy arguments against New START, that’s bad news for improving relations with Russia.

There doesn’t seem to be any advantage gained in trying to force Gottemoeller out.

Trump missed his last major chance to make the election more competitive.

Clinton presented herself as much more of a supporter of diplomatic engagement than she really is while obscuring her reliable support for military action.

On foreign policy, Corker has a mostly bad record.

Obama has tossed aside the last few restrictions that theoretically limited presidential war-making.

The war on Yemen that the U.S. has supported over the last nine months has to be the largest black mark on Obama’s record.