U.S. sailors are arriving in Romania to flip the switch on a new missile-defense facility, the first of two missile-defense sites scheduled to come online in Eastern Europe in the coming years. One might expect advocates of missile defense to see this as good news. However, it comes with an asterisk. Even as missile defense gains support around the world -- and understandably so, given the metastasizing missile threat -- it’s not gaining support where it arguably matters most. Three decades ago, there were nine countries that fielded ballistic missiles. Today, there are 32. Several of them are unstable (Pakistan and Egypt) or unfriendly (Iran and North Korea) or both (Syria). Because of the nature of their regimes -- adjectives like paranoid and terrorist come to mind -- North Korea and Iran are the most worrisome of the world’s missile threats. To be sure, other regimes have larger, more lethal arsenals, but those other regimes are relatively...(Read Full Article)