Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s decision to finalize an agreement with Prague in early July to station part of the “third site” anti-missile system there arrives at a critical point in the proliferation debate. The news comes at the same time a former U.N. arms inspector is set to report that plans to build a nuclear weapon — compatible with Iran’s ballistic missile technology — could have fallen into the hand of the rogue regime and other dangerous actors. The radar in the Czech Republic, together with the possible stationing …
The early reports out of President’s Bush’s trip to Europe for tomorrow’s NATO summit in Bucharest all seem to focus on the U.S. backing of Ukraine’s and Georgia’s bids to join the alliance. While NATO should pursue membership for those two former Soviet republics, there is so much more at stake. The Bucharest summit comes at a crucial time for the future of the alliance. The International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan has exposed strategic and political shortcomings that the U.S. must address. Afghanistan is the alliance’s first out-of-area …
