[Ben Ficklin]

Perle is a very prominent NeoCon and the NeoCons oppose the treaty. Scowcroft is a very prominent Realist and the Realists support the treaty.

Its just like it was in the GHW Bush administration when the first START Treaty came to be.

All the NeoCons, including Perle, were there in the Defense Dept under Cheney opposing the treaty.

The Realists, including Baker at State, Scowcroft as NSA, Gates as Scowcroft's deputy, Condi Rice as Scowcroft's protege', Powell as joint chief, all supporting the treaty.

[Diogenesis]

Realists? Please.
Call them what they are: neoMarxists, RussianPAWNS, and SaudiPAWNS.

[WOSG]

“Scowcroft is a very prominent Realist”

Scowcroft?!? oh puleeeze. Neither prominent nor someone to look up to. Just like Kissinger sucking up to China and finding out he was on a consulting gig, this ‘argument by authority is hollow. And just like other RINO suspects, wheeled out by media only to advance the liberal agenda.

This START is NOT like the other START treaties, and Russia is NOT the superpower it was in 1990. Pretending they are is dumb. The other deals didnt tie out hands vs our real threat with missile defense limits, this does. Obama is a lousy negotiator and cut a bad deal (even the libs have noticed that by now!) It’s extraneous and unnecessary and of no use to US national security.

Do you look up to Gates on DADT advice too? Look to Powell on affirmative action? Take elder Bush’s advice on GOP primary candidates? Then why follow them on START?

[skeeter]

The Realists, including Baker at State, Scowcroft as NSA, Gates as Scowcroft's deputy, Condi Rice as Scowcroft's protege', Powell as joint chief, all supporting the treaty.

I hope you're being sarcastic.