A ground-based Interceptor missile breaks cloud cover, shortly after launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, September 1, 2006. (Defense Department/Handout/Reuters)From McClatchy Newspapers:
PRAGUE — The Obama administration has begun to indicate that it's willing to reconsider the Bush administration's push to deploy a ballistic missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland — if Russia helps curb Iran's push to develop nuclear weapons.
Echoing Vice President Joe Biden, who said the new administration wants to push a "reset button" on U.S.-Russia relations, Undersecretary of State William Burns told the Interfax news agency in Moscow last week that, "The United States is quite open to the possibility of new forms of cooperation" with Moscow on missile defense, Iran and "the whole range of security issues with Russia." His remarks are posted on the Interfax Web site.
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My Comment: As expected, the Obama Administration is using the missile defense program as a bargaining chip against the Russians. The ball is now in the Russian's court.