There will be lots of knee-jerk reaction posts just based on the title alone.
What will be missed is something subtle, yet frightfully important: that to claim that Russia’s complaints against our missile defenses are legitimate means that everyone accepts that our missile defenses work.
And *that* fact means that the liberals have lost the debate over “unproven” missile systems.
A fact most of them will probably, alas, never notice.
Yes, we’ve come a long way since Ted Kennedy invented the phrase “Star Wars” to debunk Reagan’s SDI, haven’t we?
Candidate Obama stated that he didn’t support missile defense because it was an “unproven technology”. Several successful technology-proving tests later, he decided the main objection was “cost-effectiveness”.