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[quote=guyfawkes]They're doing this to check us for putting a missile system in Europe, and besides, why should we protect Europe? I'm pretty sure they can protect themselves, because what is freedom when you're not willing to fight for it? Nothing, that's what.[/QUOTE

They are protecting themselves, that's why they have bought this missile defense system from us. We are pushing it because we want to get it installed so that we can improve our defensive capabilities in the future.

Lets face it intoday's world, we have more than just Russia launching an attack. You have the possibility of terrorists getting their hands on one. Russians don't have all their missiles in silo's. Most of them are on mobile launchers, what's to stop some whack job terrorist group from high jacking one of those things and launching an attack. Or possibly a misfire, or a rogue launch. Or even some form of hacker, taking over an installation.

We should be working even harder to defend ourselves and our allies from weapons capable of killing millions of people in an instant. Of course most of you don't feel threatened by these weapons, so you could care less. The only thing worse than putting our nose in everyone's business, is just sitting back and doing nothing. WW2 showed us that we need to play an active part in world security. Maybe we have over stepped sometimes, but overall I think the world needs and wants un involved. As we should be.


The Russians are mad because with this shield up they will no longer have the threat of nuclear attack on Western Europe so that they can force their will on those countries. Noone is scared of conventional Russian forces anymore, and they know they are weak in that department. They like to use their nuclear power to impose their will, and this eliminates that, and they hate it.