; Team Obama Schemes for Further Weakening of U.S. Defensive Shield

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What are we to make of President Obama's attitude toward U.S. missile defenses? His past positions, his actions as president to date and the secret negotiations his administration has under way with Russia bespeak an alarming, ideologically driven hostility to the idea of protecting the American people and their allies from missile-delivered threats.

Given the irrationality of such an attitude in light of the intensifying dangers such threats represent, the Obama attitude might best be described as "anti-missilephobia." Will Congress accommodate or counteract this potentially suicidal disorder?

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; Team Obama Schemes for Further Weakening of U.S. Defensive Shield

The problem predates Mr. Obama's election in 2008. He campaigned on a platform that conformed to the left's historic hostility toward missile defenses. Candidate Obama promised not to deploy anti- missile systems that are "less than fully effective." That is code for oppo...

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