And lately, even some missile-defense supporters have started to agree with them. Fortunately, President Bush knows better. No treaty that prevents us from addressing today s threats, that prohibits us from pursuing promising technologies to defend ourselves, our friends and our allies, is in our interests.
Opponents are unmoved.
Move forward on missile defense, they say, but remain ambiguous about the treaty. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, such an approach to resolving the treaty issue could wind up making it harder to jettison. Today, Russia has scaled back its criticism of a missile defense considerably. The same holds true for our European allies.