Originally Posted by Kiopa_Matt

Oh, geez. It's because the current START treaty expires December 5th, at which time US inspectors are no longer allowed in Russia military installations. Right now the US knows the extent of Russia's military arsenal, but come Dec 5th that will change unless this new treaty gets signed. You even have the head of the Russian military saying in public that come Dec 5th, Russia will begin deploying new missile technology throughout the country, because they'll no longer be under any obligation to allow the US to see what their arsenal is.

Geez, FOX News obviously does its job well. Sometimes your guys' blind hatred of Obama is pretty childish.

Originally Posted by Kiopa_Matt

heh, I got a bit of a chuckle out of that too. You have both the US and Russia on the media boasting, "Yeah, we're awesome, because we're cutting our nuclear arsenal. No more 14,000 nukes for us! We're only going to have 8000 from now on.".

Ok, and we're supposed to be impressed, because why exactly? A few dozen is probably all you need to get the job done.