One major coming Obama accomplishment hopefully we all can agree on

[WI_DEM]

SHINGTON — Eight months, three presidential meetings, countless Geneva negotiating sessions and one missed deadline later, the United States and Russia appear close to agreement on a new arms control treaty that will reduce their strategic nuclear arsenals by at least one quarter.

even if the two sides manage to bring home a deal in coming days as they hope, that will be the easy part. After President Obama and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia sign the new pact, they plan to send negotiators back to the table next year to pursue a far more ambitious agreement tackling whole categories of nuclear weapons never before subject to international limits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/world/18arms.html?_r=2


The effort is part of a broader initiative by Mr. Obama to start down the road toward eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons and to transform the American military for a new era. A nuclear posture review due next month will propose an overhaul of the nation’s strategic doctrine and force consideration of the question of how many weapons the United States really needs without a superpower rival, including whether to eliminate one leg of the traditional “triad” of submarines, missiles and bombers.

[Winterblues]

1. You can count me in with those that agree with this.

:shrug: I am sure there will be at least one that thinks differently though..

[msongs]

2. good news. wonder if the obstructionists will filibuster this one too. nt

[el_bryanto]

5. You can almost guarentee that some will try.

I would think.

Don't know if they will be successful.

Bryant

[eleny]

3. K&R

[Political Heretic]

4. Sounds good to me.

[ThomWV]

6. That would be a very good thing indeed and an accomplishment worthy of note.

Unlike some other areas where his lack of leadership had been near appaling. Can you say wiretap? How about "war crimes"?

[Echo In Light]

7. Rec - Original Child Bomb

http://www.originalchildbomb.com/

An urgent doc film that the Conservative Monitor calls "an appalling, anti-American, propaganda film," while repeatedly mocking "film footage of “innocent” Japanese men, women, and children," their emphasis on "innocent."