Obama has sent what the New York Times describes as a "secret letter" to Russian president Dmitri Medvedev.(The Week)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)

Obama has sent what the New York Times describes as a "secret letter" to Russian president Dmitri Medvedev. Its not-so-secret contents threaten to undo several of the Bush administration's most significant gains in the area of missile defense. The missive to Moscow supposedly offers the Russians a deal: If they help prevent Iran from developing long-range missiles, Obama will pull the plug on a NATO-approved missile-defense system in Eastern Europe. This is a high price to pay for Russia's cooperation, which may not materialize. In fact, abandoning the missile-defense project--which ...