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have approved Obama"s health bill. If now the Republicans agree (even partly) to the new START treaty, they will be accused not only of healthcare socialism, but also of surrendering nuclear security to the Russians. Such a burden is no ticket to the Senate. So whatever way you look at the treaty, to make it see the light of the day and to teach it to walk are two different things. Obama will have to use a very potent medicine to persuade Republican Senators to support the new START treaty. Such things are not achieved by rhetoric alone.True, the scope for interpretation, painstakingly incorporated by legal experts, will probably allow both sides to see the treaty from different angles. Moscow has already announced, for example, that the agreement "will record in a legally binding way the relationship between strategic offensive and strategic defensive weapons and also the increasing importance of this relationship for START reductions." In Washington, Defense Secretary
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