if i'm in china or russia or, for that whmatter in the united states when we saw when irving occurred when we built all of these multiple warheads that got us all into so much trouble, i point it at the other guys' mise defense and say, hey, we need more missiles. if you don't give me more missiles i'm going to go and find a way to make my case to your political adversaries or your people and point out that you're not doing what you need to do to defend this country. anybody who looks at this obama administration the way it's behaved when faced with threats should have no trouble understand that this can occur in other political environments. this is not a unique vulnerability of democratic societies. many people think that mr. putin is going to harden up even more because he wants to show his electorate in russia that he's in charge and he's going to build on fears people have. i would be glad to tell you, unfounded fears. but we're dealing with a essential technical political phenomenon here. it's not purely technical, it's not purely social, it's not purely political. it's very dif