Remember Russia?: "While it is good to continually point out that the Bush administration screwed the pooch on Iraq and neglected more serious threats from North Korea and Iran in the process, it is worthwhile to point out that there is precisely ONE entity that presents an existential threat to the United States: Russia. The solution for dealing with this existential threat? The Bush administration’s circus act/foreign policy team decided to write some talking points, call them the U.S.-Russian Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, and declare the problem solved. Now, the problems with SORT have been obvious for a while (no verification in the treaty, expires in 2012, is only in effect for one day, etc.). And Wade’s article points out that the negotiations for implementing the treaty aren’t going so well."

(Via ArmsControlWonk.com.)