Europe Needs Missile Defense Against a Real Threat
Trey Obering & Eric Edelman, The Washington Post | July 9, 2009
Opponents of missile defense argue unpersuasively that “there is no near-term, long-range Iranian missile threat and the proposed US system could not defeat such a threat anyway.” ++ Yet Iran continues to buy crucial materials and make progress in their missile tests. ++ The US plan includes state-of-the-art radar and interceptors, and there is no reason to believe they would not work as planned. ++ The US should protect its NATO allies from this growing threat and provide adequate funds to move this project forward.
