I really don't know what to make of this yet. But the Munich Süddeutsche Zeitung is reporting that the United States wants to station "missile defense" Star Wars systems in Europe to guard against attacks from Iran.
According to the anonymous US State Department source for the report, the US would seek bilateral treaties with European countries under which the US would pay them to allow the missiles to be stationed there. NATO as such would be bypassed in this approach. Missiles could be stationed there by 2006.
This would be the "missile defense" system that Rummy has exempted from normal testing requirements to allow it to proceed, because it couldn't pass the tests for reliability that normally weapons systems have to undergo.
What this new initiative may mean, I'm just shaking my head over. Are there contracts somewhere in there for Halliburton?
But the bottom line is not Halliburton's. It's the consequences of an accelerated arms race that will be the most likely outcome of this.
Tags: iran, iran war, missile defense, star wars
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