RUSSIAN/US THINK TANK THINKS IRAN IS BENIGN

WASH POST: U.S.-Russian Team Deems Missile Shield in Europe Ineffective

A planned U.S. missile shield to protect Europe from a possible Iranian attack would be ineffective against the kinds of missiles Iran is likely to deploy, according to a joint analysis by top U.S. and Russian scientists.

The U.S.-Russian team also judged that it would be more than five years before Iran is capable of building both a nuclear warhead and a missile capable of carrying it over long distances. And if Iran attempted such an attack, the experts say, it would ensure its own destruction.

"The missile threat from Iran to Europe is thus not imminent," the 12-member technical panel concludes in a report produced by the EastWest Institute, an independent think tank based in Moscow, New York and Belgium.

THIS REPORT IS NOT WITHOUT ITS OBVIOUS BIAS:

1. THE EASTWEST INSTITUTE IS A THINK TANK RUN AND STAFFED BY BIG-MONEY EURO-AMERICAN "INSIDERS" WHOSE ATTITUDES ARE MOST SIMILAR TO THE ARABISTS AND STATUS QUOISTS AND "REALISTS" IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT, THE PENTAGON AND THE CIA.
2. THE FACT THAT HALF THE "CONSULTANTS" WHO PRODUCED THIS "REPORT" ARE RUSSIAN ALSO SLANTED THE RESULT, IF NOT MADE THE CONCLUSION COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE: RUSSIA IS VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED TO THE DEPLOYMENT BY THE USA.NATO OF ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE IN EUROPE - FOR ANY REASON.
3. WHAT'S MORE, RUSSIA IS IRAN'S PRIMARY SUPPLIER FOR BOTH ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND ITS MILITARY.

• IOW: RUSSIA IS NOT AN UNINVOLVED AND OBJECTIVE OBSERVER; THEY ARE A PLAYER - AND THEY'RE ON THE SIDE OPPOSED TO US AND OUR NATO ALLIES - AND ISRAEL.

• ONE SHOULD NO MORE REGARD THIS AS AN UNBIASED AND REASONABLE REPORT, THEN REGARD A WANDA SYKES AS AN OBJECTIVE AND REASONABLE ANALYST OF RUSH LIMBAUGH.

• THE IDEA THAT WE SHOULDN'T PREPARE FOR THE WORST CASE SCENARIO VIS A VIS IRAN SMACKS OF THE OF APPEASEMENT AND PRO-DISARMAMENT ATTITUDES WHICH DOMINATED BRITAIN AND EUROPE FROM 1930 UNTIL POLAND WAS INVADED. WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS.
  

• WE MUST MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN. THE COSTS THIS TIME MIGHT BE EVEN WORSE. FOR EUROPE AND THE WORLD.