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...assured destruction. That's why the U.S. is continuing to work on the missile shield system on which it has already spent about $100 billion. And U.S. officials can't figure out why, given Russia's proximity to Iran and Washington's willingness to actually share the technology with Moscow, the Kremlin keeps saying "Nyet...
...spat spiked Wednesday when Secretary of State Condi Rice verbally slapped a top Russian general for saying that Moscow might have to aim some of its missiles at former fellow Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic and Poland if they host U.S. missile-defense bases. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, head of Russia's strategic missile forces, had said Monday such targeting would be an option if those two nations agree to a U.S. proposal to base 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic. "I think that was an extremely unfortunate comment," Rice said during a stop...
...invited them to come see our interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska. We've invited them to come see our radar in California. We've even offered, if appropriate, to co-locate radars with them and share data." All this, he said, had led to "some debate in Moscow about how to respond under the circumstances...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Peter Pace visited Moscow a month ago and tried to convince his Russian counterpart that extending the U.S. system to European bases was intended to counter an expected Iranian threat, and would not weaken Russia's own nuclear deterrent. "The math and geometry is fairly straightforward and fairly basic," he said. "If the Russians were to fire a missile at the United States, the [U.S. interceptor] missile that's in Poland would not be able to catch the missile that was fired from Russia...
...Instead of trying to intimidate its neighbors, Moscow should welcome the chance to work with the U.S. on missile defense, Obering said. "We have a combined interest in stopping this emerging missile threat," he said. "It's not the Russians that we're worried about - it's the Iranian missiles that we're worried about. There's thinking inside the Pentagon that Reagan's "Star Wars" plan so unnerved the Russians that they're still suffering from a Cold War hangover and ultimately might see the light and cooperate. But that's unlikely to happen so long as NATO encroaches...