[DoodleDawg]

Zakaria, the host of CNN's weekly Fareed Zakaria GPS program, said on his show that NATO should consider building a missile defense system in Eastern Europe that the Obama administration scrapped...

A couple of problems with that statement. NATO isn't paying for it, we are. NATO isn't providing billions in military aid for the privilege of building the missile bases, we are. It provides no protection to the U.S., only Europe. So once again people are advocating we take steps without Europe's support and spend billions of dollars defending countries so that they don't have to. Yeah, makes perfect sense to me. </sarcasm>

[Tonytitan]

It provides no protection to the U.S., only Europe

Does your sarcasm tag apply to this statement also?

[lodi90]

A couple of problems with that statement. NATO isn’t paying for it, we are. NATO isn’t providing billions in military aid for the privilege of building the missile bases, we are. It provides no protection to the U.S., only Europe. So once again people are advocating we take steps without Europe’s support and spend billions of dollars defending countries so that they don’t have to. Yeah, makes perfect sense to me.

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The key thing right now is maintaining the threat of NATO deterrence. It’s better to pay for that radar than to have to decide what to do in the future when Putin rolls tanks into some place like Estonia and they invoke article 5. Doing less than nothing right now just encourages Putin to start rolling tanks through NATO countries.

[Dave346]

Actually the missile defenses Bush planned in Poland and Czech Republic would’ve protected the East Coast of the US from Iranian ICBMs. Out East Coast has absolutely no missile defenses now.

Russia objected to those missile defenses on the pretense they were targeting them, but they know darn well that no missile defenses will protect the West from their arsenal.