Missile Defense Was Wrongheaded and Obama Did the Right Thing

Read Fred Kaplan on Obama's Decision to remove anti-missile defense systems in Czeck Republic and Poland. He's on the mark. It's been my (hardly qualified) opinion for a long time that ICBM defense systems were pretty silly ... and especially a bad priority when it costs us Russia's help in containing actual threats (i.e. Iranian proliferation and the possibility of smuggling suit-cased sized bombs).