Had Jacob not deleted his previous diary I could point you to a comment where I quoted a number of ET "salon" posts tracking the German government's position on the missile shield last Spring. Basically, European governments make noises to appease their (rightly) worried populace, and then there's a NATO summit or an EU summit and nobody voices any objections at the top government level. The same thing happened on the CIA secret flights.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo