Return To Yesteryear.

Barack Obama seems to believe that the year is 1979 and not 2009. Already he is recreating the failed Dhimmi Carter administration.

First his overture towards Iran is met with preconditions that really cannot be met by us (but Obama being the appeaser he is will do it), and now he is trying to push another SALT II type treaty on the US with the Russians.

The Obama administration, reversing the Bush administration's limited interest in nuclear disarmament, is gearing up for early negotiations with Russia on a new treaty that would sharply reduce stockpiles of nuclear warheads.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has notified Congress and her staff that she intends to get started quickly on talks with the Russians, who have voiced interest in recent weeks in settling on a new treaty calling for cutbacks in arsenals on both sides.

The 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty expires at the end of the year. It limited the United States and Russia to 6,000 nuclear warheads each. The American stockpile is believed to be about 2,300 warheads, and the Russians' even lower.

Clinton's spokesman, Robert Wood, said the new administration was serious about negotiating reductions in nuclear weapons. A replacement treaty for START "will be put on a fast track," Wood said.

President Barack Obama said during the campaign that he would seek verifiable reductions in all U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. Clinton told Congress last month that deep reductions were the goal.

Clinton has told her staff she intends to get started quickly on talks with the Russians, said an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the subject.

Daryl Kimball, executive director of the private Arms Control Association, said "it appears that reductions down to 1,000 warheads are possible." That would be a cut of more than 50 percent on the U.S. side.

In 2002, President George W. Bush and Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed on a treaty that sets as a target 1,700 to 2,000 deployed strategic warheads by 2012.

We are being led by a man who's goal in life is to destroy the entire US nuclear arsenal, thus leaving us defenseless. Carter tried to do this and the Congress at the time told him no by not ratifying the treaty. This time there are very few in Congress who see that trying to limit other nations and yourself will not work. It didn't work in the past and will not work now, no matter what Obama thinks or says.