In response to the threat posed by an Iranian nuclear weapons program, the US government seems to be pushing for a missle defense system in Europe.
BERLIN (AFP) - The US government is considering stationing defensive missiles in a number of European countries against a potential attack from Iran.State Department sources told Germany’s Sueddeutsche newspaper that Washington was concerned because Iran is developing a satellite program and argued that if Tehran can send satellites into space, it could probably fire intercontinental missiles.
The daily quoted a high-ranking US diplomat as saying that the Americans would like to develop a defensive missile network with Europeans but doubted whether a deal could be reached quickly by NATO (news - web sites).
Because of these concerns, Washington may pursue bilateral agreements with individual European countries for deployment in 2006 anti-ballistic systems in exchange for economic aid, the Sueddeutsche said.
What about the terrorist groups who can get their hands on such weapons and smuggle them into the United States? What about a nuclear weapon on a boat headed into one of our ports? What about all of the other ways in which Iran could use nuclear weapons to inflict harm on us?
This really concerns me, because it says that instead of eliminating the heart of Islamic fundamentalism which is developing nuclear weapons, we will essentially ignore the threat and install a half-assed missle defense system that can only protect us from one form of nuclear attack. President Bush, by failing to live up to his own doctrine of eliminating all terrorist groups and the states that sponsor them, is putting our security in great risk.
