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Agreed. This missile defense system paid for by America is
preposterous. It would be different if several middle eastern states
had multiple nukes and accurate missiles to deliver them with and
Europeans were buying them from us for their mutual defense, but this
is just more Cold War and that ended almost twenty years ago. The
point is to suck up to eastern Europe as a check against Russia. I
think it's high time Europe paid for it's own defense instead of us
paying them to let us do it.

Swill