Last month, I wrote:
Our new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton added an interesting litle kicker. "Gee, of course, if we had help with the Iran-going-nuclear-problem, it'd make this whole missile shield thing go away even faster."I figured this was a big Valentine's Day card to the Russians.
Looks like I may have been right.
Well, according to the New York Times, it went a little further than a hint in Reuters:
President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday.
Moscow has not responded to the letter that was hand-delivered to President Dmitri A. Medvedev, above, three weeks ago.
The letter to President Dmitri A. Medvedev was hand-delivered in Moscow by top administration officials three weeks ago. It said the United States would not need to proceed with the interceptor system, which has been vehemently opposed by Russia since it was proposed by the Bush administration, if Iran halted any efforts to build nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.
This officially falls into the let's take what we can get category. I'm far more worried about Iran's potential nukes than Russia's current ones. If we can get them to help us apply pressure, even a bilateral demand for IAEA inspection, good things can start happening.
