scott horton says us picking fight with russians

Anti-War Activist Scott Horton on Missile Defense: "They're Picking a Fight with the Russians!"

Anti-War Radio's Scott Horton, in an interview earlier this week with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, hit the nail on the head on the actual intention behind President Barack Obama's missile defense plans for Europe. 


"They're picking a fight with the Russians," he said. "They're changing it from mutually assured destruction, so we can kill the Russians with a first strike, and if our planners are convinced that if they can get enough Russian missiles on the first strike plus shoot down enough of the missiles of the Russian retaliation on the second, then we can forever defuse mutually assured destruction, and we can launch a pre-emptive aggressive war against the Russians and defeat them before they have a chance to nuke more than a few of our cities, or whatever is the limit the Pentagon cares about over here in our country; and that means the Russians have to respond on an even closer hair-trigger than they already are on, when it comes to launch-on-warning on that kind of thing, because they don't want to get obliterated without being able to shoot back."


Horton's comment came about half-way through the interview, and reflected much more reality than McGovern's insistence that the missile defense scheme is really nothing more than corporate welfare. 
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East Europeans Express Concern over U.S./NATO Missile Defense Plans

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday that the U.S. and NATO will go ahead with its missile defense plans, despite Russian objections. 


"NATO continues to seek cooperation with Russia on missile defense in order to enhance our individual capabilities to counter this threat," Gordon said, but added that "while we strive for cooperation, we have also been frank in our discussions with Russia that we will continue to develop and deploy our missile defenses, irrespective of the status of missile defense cooperation with Russia."


Vice Chairman of the Polish Foreign Affairs Committee Tadeusz Iwinski told {RT} that a pre-emptive strike on Poland because of the U.S./NATO missile defense plans, represents the worst-case scenario.

Iwinski was responding to the May 3 statement by Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolay Makarov, who had said that, "Considering the destabilizing nature of the [American] ABM system, namely the creation of an illusion of inflicting a disarming [nuclear] strike with impunity, a decision on pre-emptive deployment of assault weapons could be taken when the situation gets harder."


Speaking as a representative of the Polish opposition, Iwinski said an agreement between Russia and the United States is vital for his country's security.


OK step back a minute. In whose interest is a war with Russia? Retribution for russian marriage websites? Vodka vs beer? I don't get it. Must be a centuries old geopolitical feud nobody's talking about.