Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Poland Tuesday to promote an increasingly unpopular plan to base a missile system in Eastern Europe.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates: “So the world changes in dramatic ways, and what we are talking about here is indivisible security for the United States and for our NATO allies. We would like to extend that umbrella to Russia and partner with Russia and have Russia be with us in this program.”

A recent survey shows nearly 60 percent of Poles oppose hosting the missile system in their country. Opposition has also increased for a second proposed site in the Czech Republic. Sixty-eight percent of Czechs now oppose plans for a U.S. radar station near Prague.