Gates criticizes Russia president's missile remarks - Los Angeles Times

Original: Gates criticizes Russia president's missile remarks - Los Angeles Times

Gates criticizes Russia president's missile remarks - Los Angeles Times: "Gates and other leaders of North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries went so far as to suggest that the alliance might scrap the process -- known as the membership action plan, or MAP -- in order to break a deadlock that has pitted the U.S. against some of its closest allies in Western Europe, particularly Germany.

Instead, Gates and the summit's host, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, said there might be another way to move the two countries toward joining the alliance."