{"id":1077,"date":"2009-09-22T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2009-09-22T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T15:54:53","slug":"more-on-the-abm-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/more-on-the-abm-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the ABM decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up from <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/us-to-abandon-plans-for-abm-system-in-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s post on cancelling ABM systems for Poland and the Czech Republic<\/a>, Jon sent the following comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was wondering about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/21\/opinion\/21iht-edcohen.html?_r=1&#038;utm_campaign=rcw-today-newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss?utm_source=newsletter&#038;adxnnlx=1253543103-zd68CAKE8Fl1KXrkm4CYIQ\" target=\"_blank\">this sort of thing<\/a> when the announcements were first made, but thought that &#8220;No, Obama <em>is<\/em> indeed evil enough to do this just for kicks.&#8221; Is is possible, thought, that the Polish and Czech installations are being cancelled as they are being replaced with something else?<\/p>\n<p>Have you read anything to that effect anywhere?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I assumed colossal ignorance and ineptitude, rather than deliberate provocation, but maybe I&#8217;m just too naive. I had read something about the SM-3 BMD at <a href=\"http:\/\/taylorempireairways.com\/2009\/09\/new-european-missile-defence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Empire Airways<\/a> (yes, <em>this time<\/em> I&#8217;m sure it was Chris Taylor). He indicates that it does have a better track record than competing systems and it can be deployed much faster, but that there are also some caveats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up from last week&#8217;s post on cancelling ABM systems for Poland and the Czech Republic, Jon sent the following comment: I was wondering about this sort of thing when the announcements were first made, but thought that &#8220;No, Obama is indeed evil enough to do this just for kicks.&#8221; Is is possible, thought, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,5,13],"tags":[277,158,30],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-military","category-usa","tag-ballisticmissiles","tag-barackobama","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}