[Non-Sequitur]

I believe the reports of errant warhead debris in a remote area of Alaska, whoops.

Where? I must have missed that part. Regardless, I'm not advocating removing missile defense from Alaska and which aid in protecting the U.S. I'm questioning the placing of missiles in Europe which does nothing to defend the U.S. Or did you just not read the entire post?

[silverleaf]

I don't think you read past my first paragraph yourself, to discount the profound geopolitical effects on our present and possible future strategic policies and options, by weakening western ties with eastern europe because the threat to them is not large and is not “our problem”

obama's Harvard academic strategists have made careers discrediting every US policy since the Cold War - now they get their chance to see if the Russian and Iranians become "reasonable" state and world actors in the vacuum we leave. Gee hope they are right.

This is not just about missile defense. It is a watershed in demonstrating the US willingness (now lack) to provide a strategic defense of eastern europe (perhaps all of europe) and to trust the Russians and Iran not to continue to intimidate them.