Russians vs Americans: "misunderstanding" the START treaty

From Legal Insurrection in a post called The Fools rushed In To New START, the truth is revealed about the accuracy and timeliness of the START treaty:

This is more than an embarrassment.  The process by which the New START Treaty was rushed through Congress in the run up to the Christmas recess epitomizes not only the methodology of the Obama administration, in which false crises are created to achieve legislative victories, but also how numerous weak-kneed Republicans went along with this charade.

If the New START Treaty were so vital to our national security, then we should have had binding commitments from the Russians making clear that their interpretation of the Preamble was consistent with our interpretation.  Instead, we have a mess in which the parties to the Treaty do not have a meeting of the minds on the meaning of the language.  

As Professor Jacobsen says, this is the trademark of this administration: using extortive pressure to pass all kinds of measures with the excuse that, if nothing is done, all hell will break loose.