(via Chris Matthews' Leg)

BAD PEOPLE DON'T HURT NICE PEOPLE

Welcome to Foreign Policy 2009. We're cutting our nukes with Russia in an increasingly nuclear world....holding hands and skipping across to Teletubby land! Hoo-ray!

Like totalitarian dictatorships everywhere (cf North Korea), the Soviet Union Russia will simply claim they have made the required reductions, when in fact they are likely increasing their numbers.

They have done this time and again. And the Reagan enunciated policy of ‘Доверяй, но проверяй’ (trust but verify) simply does not work.

It is next to impossible to verify such details. (Something we should have learned from North Korea, Iran and even Iraq.)

"We resolve to reset U.S.-Russian relations so that we can cooperate more effectively in areas of common interest," Obama said.

Like Georgia, North Korea, Iran, the price of oil, missile defense?

They also promised fresh cooperation on public health issues and revived a joint commission to try to account for missing service members of both countries dating back to World War II…

It is to laugh.

The Soviet Union Russians stand diametrically opposed to the United States on every issue. This is not an accident. It is a matter of policy.

The dictator Mr. Putin views Russia’s national interest as being diametrically opposite to ours. And no amount of honeyed words will change that.

History may not repeat itself, but stupidity sure does. (Sweetness and Light)

See his just found college paper on the subject. Revealing, no?