{"id":191367,"date":"2009-08-28T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/28\/sanity-brakes-out-in-missile-defense\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T23:45:00","slug":"sanity-brakes-out-in-missile-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/28\/sanity-brakes-out-in-missile-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanity Brakes Out in Missile Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a report that the <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4253068&amp;c=AIR&amp;s=TOP\">US will abandon plans to station missile interceptors in Eastern Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Washington will scrap plans to put anti-missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic and is looking at alternatives including Israel and Turkey, a Polish newspaper reported Aug. 27, citing U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. plan, intended for defense against attacks from Iran, has met with fierce objections from Russia, which regarded the eastern European bases as a threat to its own security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is good news.  Not only was Eastern Europe a piss poor location for missile defense,  because it leaves <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/fear-and-loathing-in-euro-missile.html\">allies on the southern tier of NATO unprotected<\/a>, but it is located so as to be a direct threat, and a means of surveillance of, all of the European territory of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to maintain that the real goal of the missile system was to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">create<\/span> hostility, which would, in the perception of the Dick Cheneys of the world, bolster the Republican Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a report that the US will abandon plans to station missile interceptors in Eastern Europe Washington will scrap plans to put anti-missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic and is looking at alternatives including Israel and Turkey, a Polish newspaper reported Aug. 27, citing U.S. officials. The U.S. plan, intended for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1159,1096,1043,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-missile-defense","category-nato","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}