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The NATO plan to deploy an anti-missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic drew the renewed wrath of the Russian President. Those sites are as proximate as the Soviet Union's weapons were proximate to the United States in 1962, Vladimir Putin complained, "likening the plan to deploy a missile shield on Russia's doorstep to the Cuban Missile Crisis," as NBC's David Gregory put it. Gregory reminded us that Putin had suggested that the appropriate location for the missile defense was "somewhere on the moon."
Gregory is NBC's White House correspondent so he tried to offer the President's side of this argument too. George Bush emphasizes that the system is designed against Iran not against Russia. To reassure Russia, the United States has made an offer that "the system will not be activated until the Iranian threat can be verified." So when will that be? That is when Gregory's reporting got confusing: he claimed that Bush insists that the system is "urgently needed"--but then backed that up with a soundbite that Iran "could" develop an ICBM "before 2015."
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