White House to Scrap Bush’s Approach to Missile Shield
President Obama announced on Thursday that his administration will scrap former President George W. Bush’s planned missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic and instead deploy a reconfigured system aimed more at intercepting shorter-range Iranian missiles. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via New York Times (Most Emailed), Google News (U.S.), Publish2 (U.S.), Tom Friedman
This is welcome news, signaling as it does Mr. Obama's intention to change the worldwide image of the US through diplomacy instead of belligerency, and maybe save us a few billion bucks along the way. The latter possibility, however, remains to be seen. Neither of these systems, Star Wars I or Star Wars Jr., has yet been shown to work at all. Even so, I welcome someone to the diplomatic stage who doesn't try to get things done with name-calling or pushing his national weight around.