In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Joe Biden said: "Mark my words.(The Week)(Brief article)

In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Joe Biden said: "Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama." In reality, it took only a day or two, as Russian president Dmitry Medvedev delivered a stern speech in which he demanded that the United States stop building a missile-defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland, and threatened to retaliate by deploying missiles near the Polish border. The Russian obsession with a small missile-defense system in Eastern Europe is strange: A handful of interceptors provide no deterrent to Russian weaponry and are in fact a ...