Biden

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported:

 The vice president published an op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal.  At first glance, it appears to be a more or less typical example of SOTU follow-up, in which administration officials blanket every available inch of print space and second of airtime pushing this or that component of the “message.” Communications 101.  Moreover, it appears to take a large step toward the various critics of the Obama administration's national security policies.  Triangulation 101. 

But this op-ed is something more.  It addresses, head-on, a touchy topic that the administration prefers either to avoid or to speak about in platitudes: The maintenance of America’s nuclear forces in the face of the president’s nuclear free world agenda.