Rep. Eric Cantor published an op-ed in Politico focusing on the need for continued support for America’s missile defense system. Here is an excerpt:

“In the past two weeks, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee announced that he would love to cut missile defense funding. Newspaper headlines report that the Obama administration is planning to make significant cuts in the missile defense budget. These cuts could include funds that would be used to deploy our missile defense assets to Europe which NATO has twice stated is necessary to deal with the threat from Iran.

“That such a rollback of the system is being discussed is dangerous. That it is being discussed at the same time North Korea and Iran are carrying out aggressive, threatening activities is irresponsible and unacceptable.

“When President Obama campaigned last year, he said that he supported missile defense systems that work. Our systems have shown through numerous tests that they work that is not in doubt. So why cut the budget for continued missile defense deployment? It sounds like some old research forever, deploy never mantra of anti-missile defense ideologues.”