WE'VE GOT SOME PRIME SWAMPLAND TO SELL: "Despite the growing rancor on Capitol Hill demanding an advanced missile defense shield on the East Coast, the Pentagon does not have the money or desire to build such a system in the eastern United States."

Remember the Polish Ground Missile Defense (GMD) interceptor site that President Obama so abruptly cancelled?

The Missile Defense Agency is planning to expand the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to include new, two-stage Ground-based Interceptors (GBIs) in Poland and an X-band radar (referred to as the European Midcourse Radar (EMR)) in the Czech Republic. These European assets are planned to provide defenses against long-range Iranian threats to the United States [emphasis added] as well as against intermediate-range Iranian threats to Europe.

Look on your map and see where Poland is with respect to Iran and the East Coast -- almost exactly mid-way. Of course Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons or an ICBM to carry it (yet).