Scott Ritter on Iran, Missile Defense and Barack Obama

This morning on WBAI's Wake Up Call, we spoke with Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector in Iraq and long-time critic of US security policies in the Gulf region, about recent developments relating to Iran, Russia and missile deployment. It revolved around an article he wrote on Thursday in TruthDig.com, which I post the link below.

To listen to the conversation, go to WBAI's website. Here is a link to archive of the 7:00am hour, which also included an interview about the Drug War with the Drug Policy Alliance, and a segment on attacks against human rights defenders in Colombia with Andrew Hudson of Human Rights First and Manuel Rozental of ACIN, which was later in the hour. (Once in, you need to scroll along the time clock to get to each segment).

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Published on Thursday, March 12, 2009 by TruthDig.com

President Obama received a lesson in international gamesmanship last week, when his secret offer to trade the deployment of a controversial missile defense system in Eastern Europe for Russian assistance in getting Iran to back down from its nuclear program was publicly rebuffed. The lesson? You don't get something for nothing, especially when the something you're looking for is, itself, nothing.

For the entire piece, visit http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/12-4