Barack Obama dispatched a letter to Dmitri Medvedev suggesting that the installations in the Czech Republic and Poland are not a done deal, and that if they can come to a meeting of the minds on Iran, this could be called off.

The installations have always been wrong headed, improperly located, and provocative,^* so this is a bit of good news.

^*I’ve always said that the provocative bit was a feature, not a bug. A bellicose and militaristic Russia benefits the ‘Phants and their defense contractor friends.