Newsweek: Missile defense wasn't the answer

"By canceling plans to station antiballistic-missile systems in Poland and the Czech Re-public, President Obama has traded fantasy for reality," writes Fareed Zakaria, editor of  Newsweek International.  He quotes Joe Cirincione, who told Congress recently that the threat from ballistic missiles "has steadily declined over the past 20 years. There are fewer missiles in the world today than there were 20 years ago, fewer states with missile programs, and fewer hostile missiles aimed at the United States. Countries still pursuing long-range-missile programs are fewer in number and less technologically advanced than 20 years ago." These numbers, says Zakaria, are indisputable.