US isolates itself with talk of Star Wars?

[Lisa & Ian Murray]

" [Norm]Dicks gloomily said the Munich meeting persuaded him that the United
States blundered terribly when it declared its determination to field missile
defenses. "I think we've had a public relations disaster with the rest of the
world," he said. "We've kind of isolated ourselves."

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