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Problems with current U.S. policy.

Publication: Foreign Policy in Focus
Publication Date: 01-OCT-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The threats that a missile defense system is meant to address have been greatly exaggerated.

The Bush administration is rushing to deploy a missile defense system before it has been sufficiently tested.

The resurgence of Star Wars has been politically driven, on by...

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...spurred the missile defense lobby, which is thoroughly entrenched in the Bush administration.

Before September 11, 2001, missile defense consumed the Bush administration. In his speech at the National Defense University four months before the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush said, "today's most urgent threat stems not from thousands of ballistic missiles in the Soviet hands but from a small number of missiles in the hands of these states, states for whom terror and blackmail are a way of life." Deploying a missile defense system was the Bush administration's No....

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