President Barack Obama speaks about the U.S. missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland, that had deeply angered Russia, Sept. 17, 2009,
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"Obama Made the Right Decision on Missile Defense"
Op-Ed, National Review Online
September 17, 2009
Author: Thomas M. Nichols, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2008–2011
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Managing the Atom; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
"Despite the outcry that President Obama has sold out the Europeans and caved to the Russians by cancelling missile defenses in Europe, it was the right thing to do. Those defenses were not going to work (or work well enough or soon enough to matter in any major crisis with Iran), and the diplomatic price we were paying for them was far out of proportion to any small gains we might have made by annoying the Russians or reassuring the Czechs and the Poles...."
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