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U.S. Missile Deals Bypass, and Annoy, European Union
CRAIG S. SMITH, 2007-04-18 (Wednesday), NY Times
PARIS, April 13 — Much of Europe is arguing over a Washington proposal to plant in Poland fewer than a dozen antimissile missiles that might not work, to guard against an Iranian threat that may not exist.

The main party in Poland’s governing coalition is inclined to accept the deal, and the country’s president, Lech Kaczynski, known in Europe for his fierce conservatism and nationalist talk, has been invited to the White House in July to talk things over with President Bush.

The Czech Republic’s fragile government coalition, meanwhile, has agreed to negotiate placement of high-powered American tracking radar on its soil despite widespread local opposition. The radar, now in the Marshall Islands, would help guide the antimissile missiles from Poland to hit and destroy their fast-moving targets in outer space.

The European missile shield would be part of an integrated system that is already taking shape in California and Alaska, where the United States expects to deploy 30 long-range interceptors to guard against missile attack by the end of 2008.

Washington says the Eastern European system could act in time to protect most of Europe and all of the United States and even much of Russia from a nuclear attack by Iran, that is, if Iran ever developed or obtained nuclear weapons and rockets with a range long enough to reach those targets, as well as a desire to fire them. They don’t have those armaments now, but they might by 2015, the Bush administration says.

Not everyone agrees that a threat is imminent, but Washington isn’t asking anyone to help pay for the system.

Why, then, are so many people unhappy?

It is not the cost. The United States has already spent tens of billions of dollars on the missile shield. A few more billion won’t draw that much attention from Congress or taxpayers.

Nor is it Russia’s complaining that the antimissile missiles will chip away at its nuclear position. The 10 interceptor missiles that Washington is proposing to put in Poland could hardly stop Russia’s hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the event of all-out war.

The American antimissile missiles will be placed too close to Russia to be of use against ICBMs fired from anywhere west of the Ural Mountains. If they work, though, the antimissile missiles in Alaska and California could stop a Russian ICBM fired in America’s direction from east of the Urals. The fact is that in tests the antimissile missiles don’t work much of the time, and when they do it is under controlled circumstances that are far from typical in an actual attack.

No, what is going on in Europe has less to do with missiles than with diplomacy and European queasiness about American power and influence on the Continent.

The European Union is upset because Washington is negotiating bilaterally with Poland and the Czech Republic about something that affects Europe as a whole. The union has been trying for years to patch together a coherent European security and defense policy independent of NATO, and it doesn’t help when member states start cutting deals with Washington on their own.

Many Europeans are also offended that the talks are not being routed through NATO, which has been struggling to stay relevant ever since the cold war.

“The offer created a situation where it isn’t clear what the role of NATO is in providing collective security,” says Ondrej Liska, a leader of the Czech Green Party, which is a member of the Czech Republic’s governing coalition.

NATO will discuss the subject on Thursday.

But the Bush administration knows that reaching a consensus on such a delicate subject within the recently expanded NATO, now with 26 member nations, would take longer than it could afford. It is rushing to get the program far enough along that the next administration would be reluctant to kill it.

Russia, meanwhile, is upset because the little missile base in Poland and its companion radar base in the Czech Republic would give the American military its largest and most permanent footprint yet in the former territory of the Warsaw Pact.

The Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, complained in an article in the Financial Times this month that it was “unacceptable” for the United States to use the European Continent as “their own strategic territory.”

Russia’s lower house of Parliament issued a unanimous statement that said talk of the antimissile shield was “already bringing about a new split in Europe and unleashing another arms race.”

Is another cold war looming? Not yet. But Poland is buying American F-16s and Russia is moving surface-to-air missiles into Belarus near Poland’s border, and tensions are deepening.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, as Soviet troops withdrew from Eastern Europe and America began to talk about closing bases in Germany, Europe looked as if it might become the big, peaceful, postmodern federation that European Union architects had long dreamed of: a humanist club where conflicts at home and abroad would be resolved by talking everything to death instead of killing.

Then the Balkans blew up and the United States military stepped in to stop a war that Europe seemed incapable of facing. That frustrated Russia, which supported Serbia in the war, but Russia could not offer much help because it was still impotent and staggering from the collapse of its Soviet empire.

Now Russia is rich with oil and gas and its military spending is soaring. The rest of Europe — for Moscow increasingly defines itself as European — is wary of stirring up old animosities.

“We should be very careful about encouraging the creation of new dividing lines in Europe or the return of an old order,” President Jacques Chirac of France said last month when asked about the American antimissile missile plans.

The former Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev put it more succinctly when he told the official Russian news agency, Ria Novosti, last week that “It is all about influence and domination in Europe.”

Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

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2007-11-19The EU should look more to Turkey as energy source
2007-11-10Gorbachev's Eurasian strategy. (Mikhail S. Gorbachev)
2007-10-29No evidence Iran is making nukes: ElBaradei
2007-10-24U.S. may delay activating missile shield
2007-10-30Michael Ledeen discusses the Iranian Time Bomb
2009-06-17U.S. firm on missile defense but may change European plans
2009-05-10Country Reports on Terrorism 2008 --
2009-05-10Country Reports on Terrorism 2008 -- Chapter 2. Country Reports: Middle East and North Africa Overview
2009-05-22The Revenge of Geography
2009-07-20"Watch What We Do, Not What We Say"
2009-07-24The Culture Of Future Conflict
2009-06-27U.S., Germany speak out in "one voice" on global issues
2009-07-05Obama says U.S. missile shield set to counter Iran, not Russia
2009-10-15Fearsome Words? -- A Suppressed Talk On The Israel/palestine Conflict
2008-12-06Heed Russia's Warnings
2008-11-07Russia's Relations with the World: The Aftermath of the Georgian Conflict, New Vision Conference Session 2
2008-11-07What do Europeans want from a Post-Bush Foreign Policy? New Vision Conference Session 1
2008-11-10Mackinder’s World
2008-11-11Brussels-Moscow Talks 'In the EU's Interest'
2008-11-25A Secure Europe in a Better World -- European Security Strategy
2008-11-26Understanding the Beijing Consensus
2008-11-20Defining the “Post-Soviet Space”
2008-11-20'Eurasia and Europe should Cooperate against America' interview with Alexandr Dugin
2008-11-17A World System in Collapse! -- Reply to Gen. Ivashov
2009-01-25Who can unite the allies?
2009-02-08One on One: 'With no likelihood of US use of force, that leaves Israel'
2009-02-11Renewing American Leadership
2009-02-17Shock Wave (Anti) Warrior
2009-03-01Patriot missiles in Poland justify CFE moratorium - Russian analyst
2009-03-01U.S. to develop missile shield in Europe, consult Russia - Biden
2009-03-01Polish PM reiterates country's commitment to U.S. missile shield
2007-07-09Interview transcript: David Miliband
2007-07-04New Radar Proposal Seen Going Nowhere
2007-07-05What they didn't say at Kennebunkport
2007-06-22Symposium: Strategies of Death
2007-07-16Iran: A Bridge too Far?