Speaking as a former writer of newspaper editorials (and this is an op-ed), I think dragging in missile defense would have sidetracked the piece. There's only so much you can write on a page.
--- ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This article doesn't even mention the issue of the
> extension of the U.S. missile defence system to
> Poland
> and the Czech Republic. NATO declared it was in
> favor
> of the system. Certainly the Czech public is not in
> favor of the system. I don't know about the Polish
> public. It doesn's seem to matter what the public
> thinks anyway except to measure the temperature of
> the
> great beast at election time.
>
Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes, mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
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