Outside View: BMD blowback — Part One

Margot Light, London (UPI): Sep 3, 2008

The agreement concluded between the United States and Poland on Aug. 20 on the deployment of 10 interceptor missiles, part of America’s planned Ballistic Missile Defense system, was an inadvertent — and possibly unanticipated — result of the Russian-Georgian conflict. After months of prevarication, the Poles stopped increasing the level of military aid they demanded in return for hosting the missiles …

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