Has President Obama ended a second cold war? A cascade of news stories and editorials are creating the impression that his newly concluded START agreement with Moscow heralds a breakthrough in an intensifying standoff between Russia and the United States. “The new treaty represents perhaps the most concrete foreign policy achievement for Mr. Obama since he took office 14 months ago,” gushes the New York Times. The Washington Post, for its part, hails the treaty as “the most extensive nuclear arms-control agreement in nearly two decades”; it represents “President Obama’s first victory in his ambitious agenda to move toward a nuclear-free world.”
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