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The Politics Of Fantasy; The brewing flap over an ABM system in Eastern Europe has little to do with security and everything to do with spin.(antiballistic-missile)
Byline: Andrew Moravscik (Moravscik is director of the European Union Program at Princeton University.)
Politics stops at the water's edge. Or so voters in the Western democracies like to believe. When our security is at stake, we expect elected leaders to think coolly and strategically, advancing the national interest.
Iraq has done much to discredit such hopes. Now comes another American-inspired folly--the brewing transatlantic spat over the deployment of a primitive antiballistic-missile defense system in Eastern Europe. At bottom, it has little to do with security, and everything to do with symbolism and spin. And in the end it is destined to come back to bite its adherents in their collective geostrategic backside.
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