[karajorma]

Doesn't explain them pooring money into bunker-busting nukes and pulling out of the treaty though does it?

[StratComm]

No, nor do I defend either of those actions.

[vyper]

I'm afraid when it comes to nukes I find my one area of non-liberal policy belief. The nuclear deterrent is just that, a deterrent which has kept the major 1st world nations from engaging in open warfare for over 60 years.

Yes, proxy wars have been fought but a good percentage of the reason why none of us have ever had to worry about a draft is due to the fact we [the 1st world nations] will never fight a conventional war against each other while the possibility of mutually assured destruction exists.