The real threat from rogue nations is terrorism, against which Star Wars offers zero protection. George Bush seems determined to prove himself another Ronald Reagan. On foreign policy and defense, he'd be smarter to try to become another Richard Nixon. It was Republican Richard Nixon in 1972 who signed the ABM Treaty with the then-Soviet Union, in which both superpowers agreed to abandon plans for missile defense and concentrate on shrinking their arsenal of nuclear weapons, instead. President Bush is wrong.
Missile defense is no new idea.
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