Israel's latest concern with Iran's nuclear development highlights a point not unique to Israel, but rather another reason why the U.S. missile defense development is stupid: cruise missiles can evade ballistic missile shields. Iran is allegedly working on nuclear-capable cruise missiles based on a Soviet design. If the U.S. finishes setting up an operational anti-ballistic missile shield, we can be sure Iran will have many buyers for the technology. It's only a matter of time before long-range cruise missiles make ballistic missiles obsolete. So why is the Bush administration still spending so much money and precious political capital, to the point of risking a new arms race with Russia, to build an obsolete Cold War system? They just don't know how to cut their losses and move on.