Faced with growing Russian opposition to the program and the reality that the hugely expensive shield is far outside the range of Iran’s best missiles, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen defended the program as a general concept.
“More than 30 countries have or are aspiring to get missile technology,” Rasmussen insisted, adding that there was no reason for the missile defense shield to have any specific target for the program.
The Obama Administration has been continuing the Bush Adminstration’s general policy of putting its missile defense apartus along the Russian frontier, with missiles deployed in Poland virtually within walking distance to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Which has irked Russia, and led to US officials repeatedly insisting that the missile defense is something to do with Iran. The fact is, however, that the Iranian government’s best missiles have ranges that are far from the sites of the US deployments. Which has led Russia to insist that the claim is false.
The “lots of people want missiles” argument isn’t likely to convince Russia, however, nor will it be seen as a particularly good reason to spend billions of dollars on the iffy technology of the missile defense program. Rather it seems the excuse was aimed at avoiding the difficult task of justifying the program.
The program is sounding like the baseball movie. If you build it the missiles will come. It is amazing as debt is killing all the world that there is never a useless military project that will not get funded. I read of the problems in the F35 $98,000,000 useless stealth fighter jet that Clinton just found a way to get funded. She made it part of the peace plan for the middle east. $4,000,000,000 total cost is $3,300,000 a day for delay in construction of settlements in the west bank. There is nothing which will stop this kind of insanity other than total bankrupt of the nations wasting all their resource on useless aircraft with no possible use other than sneak attacking another nation. Of course at lease one nation has made great gains in sneaking the neighbors.
This is just another criminal enterprise that will create more strife, and reasons for more unjust hegemonic conflicts against non-threatening countries. NATO is nothing more than a imperial terrorist origanization in search of an enemy that does not exist until it is triggered by NATO. Let's hope that Russia does not tolerate these so-called measures that in the end will threaten every non-NATO country.
this is the one issue that prove the government thinks you (american) are a f*cking idiot.
this is the one issue that prove without a doubt the government thinks you (american) are a f*cking idiot.