Part of the hold-up on this agreement was over Polish insistence that the US subsidize Polish military modernization to a much higher level than the US envisioned. The invasion of Georgia kinda woke everybody up to the seriousness of the situation.
5 posted on 08/20/2008 1:27:01 PM PDT by Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")