The SecDef Tells The Truth

From McClatchy:

“Following contentious and unproductive encounters with Russian officials on Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates Saturday said he isn’t certain that Russia is interested in cooperating with the United States to defend Europe against Iranian missiles or whether Moscow simply wants to stop the U.S. from building missile defenses in Eastern Europe.”

It’s pretty shocking that news reports on this subject haven’t made Russia’s objection clear (maybe because U.S. and Russian diplomats have been beating around the bush to the press). But let’s spell it out: Russia does not want American missile defenses in Eastern Europe. They do not want them on a train, they do not want them on a plane, they do not want them here or there, they do not want them anywhere.