Comments on: Gates Explains Missle Defense for the Technology Impaired

By: Monday Highlights – Pseudo-Polymath

Monday Highlights – Pseudo-Polymath — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:45:57 +0000

[...] missile deal, a summary … prior to the Gates interview. A conspiracy suggested. A letter from Poland [...]

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:39:47 +0000

The fact that the technology just isn't up to snuff yet is my single objection to the plan that has been axed. Spending that kind of money on systems that just haven't been solidly proven to work is an outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars. I don't see how anyone who considers themselves a fiscal conservative could support it.

By: EEllis

EEllis — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:04:14 +0000

Tech is one thing diplomacy another. It just seems like a bad idea to blow off commitments.

By: Ron Beasley

Ron Beasley — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:24:59 +0000

Daniel Larison has good post on the subject. While the leaders of Poland and Czechoslovakia may be somewhat miffed the people of those countries are not. He then asks:

How is it that most conservatives can bristle at American elites who ignore them and their interests and not see that most “pro-Western” or “pro-American” governments are staffed with people who are just as out of touch with their own nations on many issues? How do they not see that the sort of people from the coasts they find so unappealing and unlike them are very much like the Europeans who align themselves so slavishly with Washington? Why would anyone assume that such people represent the broad majority of their countrymen when it comes to foreign policy?

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Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:25:19 +0000

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