The Missile Shield is shelved! Huzzah!

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halogamer1989 said:

Obama essentially is giving an FU to Eastern Europe and something for nothing to Putin. This also bodes badly for Netanyahu's Israel and the shield's potential defense of that nation.

He is taking an idealist (not realist) approach at a world without nuclear weapons where everyone can go to the UN and talk it out and sing kumbayah. This is a load of crap as the world will always be filled with evil bastards who wish to harm other nations with nuclear or conventional attacks.

BTW, he did this on the same day that the IAEA came out with a report (they later redacted - maybe a Rahm Emmanuel phone call?) that stated that Iran has the capability and the will to create the bomb and deliver it.  http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090918_1612.php

Given that the missile shield hasn't even been proven to work, I think putting your faith in it is more idealist than realist.

Even if it did work, the sure-fire counter is to launch enough missiles that the system can't cope. Given that the world is "filled with evil bastards who wish to harm other nations" (impressive fearmongering, considering no nuclear attack has been made in 65 years), do you really want to encourage every nuclear power in the world to stockpile a nice big arsenal before they feel secure? Isn't your realist self concerned that an arms race between the nine (nine of them now!) nuclear powers in the world would increase the risk of a warhead falling into the wrong hands and being delivered in a manner which no missile defense system can counter?