Thursday, June 07, 2007
Locating a European Missile Defense System
President Bush's administration wanted to protect our new good friends in the former 'behind the iron curtain' crowd of Eastern European nations with a missile defense system, based in the Czech Republic (radar system) with the interceptors in Poland. Vladimir Putin, soon to be out of power in Russia (we hope), had a hissy fit and talked about a new cold war and retargeting European cities in response.
Now he wants it put in Azerbaijan, a former republic of the USSR. Sounds good to me. We should do it. We'll have to protect the technology, but the siting is sound for the purpose it is to serve, namely to protect Europe from nuclear tipped missiles from Iran or Pakistan or perhaps from North Korea (although it's not a good place against North Korean missiles as I view the world map).
If we don't take him up on it, we ought to have very good reasons.
Now he wants it put in Azerbaijan, a former republic of the USSR. Sounds good to me. We should do it. We'll have to protect the technology, but the siting is sound for the purpose it is to serve, namely to protect Europe from nuclear tipped missiles from Iran or Pakistan or perhaps from North Korea (although it's not a good place against North Korean missiles as I view the world map).
If we don't take him up on it, we ought to have very good reasons.
Labels: ABM Europe. New Cold War
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:26 PM 
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Don't be so surprised--we agree on a number of things. And that number will only grow larger as you attain more wisdomn your life. Thanks for isnpiring me to write on the subject.
Yeah, but Poland and Czech Republic are much nicer places for US troops to be posted than Azerbaijan.
Good one, duk. Eric, I've never been to any of them, but I'm led to believe the CR is coming along, Poland is still a mess and Azerbaijan, although a mess is better than a lot of former socialist republics becasue of the oil wealth. I see your point however.
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