Dick Lugar: “A bipartisan financial crisis inquiry commission has been established to look at the whole crisis and derivatives.”

That is a very dangerous attitude to take.

Jettisoning treaties that provide a legal framework for exposing Russian violations achieves nothing.

In the likely event the INF Treaty collapses in August, the only remaining bilateral U.S.-Russia arms control agreement would be New START, which expires in 2021 but can be extended by up to five years through agreement by both parties.

Congress could condition funding to develop new missiles on receipt from the administration of a comprehensive military, economic, and diplomatic strategy to bring Russia back into compliance with the treaty.