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chicagotribune.com - 8/22/2008
U.S. closer to missile defense base in Poland -
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WASHINGTON — The ongoing and increasingly sharp rhetorical exchange between Washington and Moscow escalated on Wednesday as the Bush administration moved one step closer to completing a deal to build an American missile shield in Poland, paving the way for the U.S. to set up its first missile system in a former Soviet bloc nation. The formal signing of the agreement by Secretary of State ...

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The Moderate Voice:  Is This the Right Policy Toward Russia?

At-Largely:  Warm Beer and Cold War

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Is This the Right Policy Toward Russia?
The Moderate Voice — ... One wonders the US didn’t thoughtlessly wound the Russian Bear’s ego yesterday by signing the missile base agreement with Poland. It evoked an immediate threat from Russia, from several sources, each intimating that Russia would take military action against Poland. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose academic specialty was Russia, seemed to make matters worse by reminding Putin that this is 2008, not 1988. ...

Warm Beer and Cold War
At-Largely — ... You have to be looking an ostrich in the eye to imagine that the deal for the U.S. to build a missile defense shield in Poland being closed as the administration tries to pry Russia out of Georgia is a coincidence. Just ...

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