US Defence Secretary Rumsfeld’s visit to Ankara was hardly concerned with the missile defence project Pres Bush re-energised on May 1^st which paradoxically was the 41^st anniversary of the U-2 espionage scandal in 1960. Washington and the EU’s attention concerning Turkey and the West’s defence issues are focused on the Turkish veto of ESDI, and of course Iraq was very much on the agenda. Turkey, with its past experience in its vitally important strategic location, is 40 years ahead of the new missile defence questions brought up by the new American administration. “How come?” For the answer and for Turkey’s plans, with that experience, for dodging the West’s ESDI initiatives please see the following article.