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Sessions Makes Comments on Missile Defense
“I am pleased that an agreement between the United States and Poland has been reached to allow for an effective defense of Europe and, importantly, the U.S. Our missile defense technology should be in place by 2013, the year that many analysts believe Iran will first have the missile capability to strike our European allies.
“As the Russian government has known for some time, the site in Poland will be strictly defensive, and will pose no threat to Russia. Any attempt to cast it as something other than defensive is disingenuous. Thus, Russia’s increasingly absurd complaints and bellicose threats can only be seen as a sad indication of a determination to exercise domination over its now democratic, progressive, and sovereign former Soviet satellites. The inability of Russia’s leaders to accept this new reality may represent the greatest threat to peace in the contemporary world.
“Poland is a sovereign nation, free to make its own military decisions. Such freedom, an essential component of sovereignty, applies equally to Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the other nations that once felt the deep tread of the Soviet boot.
“Russia must not act as a regional bully. The continuation of such behavior places a cloud over progress in the region and is doomed to failure. This agreement, therefore, represents another step in the defense of the United States and its allies and a clear statement that Poland is committed to a course of democracy and progress.”
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