fired that perhaps profoundly impact foreign policy in any way and if so, what would that be? one thing he could really do is say we are going to support permanent bases in eastern europe. the border of nato has moved east after the cold war and we have new allies. the baltic states that are now much closer to russia and we need to reassure them and that their presence eastward. arthel: already. you ve got a new book coming out. the end of europe. i am actually holding the thing out. it is coming out march 7th. thank you very much. take care. eric: well, it wasn t just any rocket launch. three, two, one, lift off of the falcon nine to the space station on the first commercial launch of the kennedy space center. eric: space acts successfully sending up the rocket this morning.