I Don't Believe We Asked You

We can see how reaching out to potential foes gets them to appreciate our defense worries. I mean, Russia and China refuse to actually help us prevent Iran and North Korea from becoming nuclear-armed threats, so naturally Russia and China should understand our need to build defenses against them. Right?

Apparently not:

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a security bloc grouping Russia, China and four ex-Soviet Central Asian states, signed a declaration condemning any unilateral build-up of missile defenses after their leaders met in the Kazakh capital.

"The unilateral and unlimited build-up of missile defense by a single state or by a narrow group of states could damage strategic stability and international security," the six members of the SCO said in the declaration.

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind the Chinese and Russians that when we want their opinions on our national defense issues, we'll beat it out of them. 'K?