The case for putting anti-missile defenses into place was underscored by this sobering fact: A ship like the North Korean vessel that was covertly carrying Scud B missiles and forcibly intercepted in the Arabian Sea lastweek could be steaming off the coast of the United States atthis very moment.
"We are exactly where we would want to be atthismoment, " Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London 2012 Organizing Committee (LOCOG), told journalists lastweek.