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Tony Blair was doing his loyal best to stick up for a new American President. George W. Bush sat with the British Prime Minister at his country house last Thursday afternoon, chewing over Bush's determination to build a U.S. missile shield. The President was pressing to take the Atlantic alliance and the world in a brave new direction, moving from an era of treaties and verification to one of...well, Blair didn't know what. He wanted a few details to play against the angst felt by his European confreres. "What do you want me to support?" he asked...
...timing can hardly be coincidental. Kim hardly ever travels abroad, and yet at a time when a top U.S. cabinet official is in Moscow discussing a missile shield intended, in significant part, to counter North Korea's potential missile capability, and here you have the North Korean leader suddenly turning up in eastern Russia on a slow train to Moscow...
...defense arrangement--one that would loosen constraints on Japan's military activity--was at the top of the Camp David agenda. The current Japanese government is less pliant than its predecessors; Tokyo has said only that it "understands" the Bush Administration's plans for an antiballistic missile shield and has hinted it might develop its own missile defense. Koizumi, who enjoys enormous popular support, has rattled neighbors by displaying a nationalistic streak. He plans to visit a controversial shrine where convicted war criminals are memorialized, and he has refused to prohibit the publication of textbooks that whitewash Japan...
...concludes that the shield will eventually work, does not contradict nuclear doctrine and will neither decouple the U.S. from Europe’s defense nor promote proliferation—but he fails to explain convincingly why the shield should be a top priority...
...point he points out that even if a missile shield provoked a race with countries whose arsenal is at the limit of the shield’s capacity, it would be a race that the U.S would eventually win—but there’s no consideration of what the cost of such a race would be, and how that figures into the national interest...