On the recordDecember 17, 2010
Let me ask my colleague from Arizona something, if I can. I do not think--I do not think--that it is necessary for us to actually have the divide that is sort of being drawn here over this issue of this preamble, given what the preamble says, and also measured against the realities of this treaty, and without the preamble. Let's pretend for a moment there is no preamble. I will come back to the preamble in a minute. But let's pretend there is no preamble, and we go ahead and we do a very extensive layered defense, as we are planning, and somewhat, and the Russians do not like it. Even without the preamble, is it not true that according to article XIV, paragraph 3, they have a right to say: 'That is going to alter the balance of power. If you do that, we do not like it, we are pulling out of the treaty'? Each party shall in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from the treaty if it decides that extraordinary events related to the subject matter of this treaty have jeopardized its supreme interests. It shall give notice of its decision to the other party. And that is it. They are out. In 3 months, they are gone. Is that not true?
