Posted on 08/28/2009 11:01:48 PM PDT by Schnucki
Reports in the Polish media indicate that the Obama administration is about to abandon its plans for “third site” missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. If enacted, this would represent a huge turnaround in American strategic thinking on a global missile defence system, and a massive betrayal of two key US allies in eastern and central Europe. Such a move would significantly weaken America’s ability to combat the growing threat posed by Iran’s ballistic missile program, and would hand a major propaganda victory to the Russians.
This shift in US policy is intricately linked to a naïve deal struck between Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in July in Moscow, where the two leaders established a framework to reduce their nukes by a third over the next seven years. The deal, expected to be concluded in December, also significantly cuts both sides’ nuclear delivery systems, such as long range bombers, to create a more level playing field (the US currently has superiority in this area). The whole agreement works to the advantage of the Russians, with their declining strategic conventional weapons capability and aging and deteriorating nuclear weapons stockpile.
Obama has made progress towards a “nuclear free world” a centerpiece of his presidency, and is clearly willing to sacrifice US interests, including its allies in Europe, on the altar of political vanity. Moscow has made it abundantly clear that any steps towards nuclear disarmament have to involve the abandonment of missile defence installations in what Russia considers its own backyard – and that includes former Soviet satellites that are now members of the European Union.
If the Obama administration drops the planned third site installations (due to be deployed by 2013), it would represent an appalling surrender to Russian demands, and the shameful of appeasement of
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Yes, next question.
Do bears crap in the woods ?
Didn’t he already offer to do that? Asking nothing in return?
He also intends to destroy our military.
It's not hard to understand: he simply doesn't like the United States. He's a man who was happy to sit in Reverend Wright's church, listening to that whacko damn America; Obama has palled around with terrorists for his entire adult life; he has installed a laundry list of left-wing, hate-America types in his administration, including outright communists.
We must increase our representation in the Congress in 2010. Even then, the Kenyan Clown will still have enormous power simply from the office that he occupies, but at least the current torrent of bad legislation might be slowed some.
I agree with #1-6 above. Obama has surrendered and apologized to every foreign country he has visited as Prez. He backs communist dictators and Muslim terriorist supporters. He does nothing to protect our borders and even put Napolitano as HLS Scty. ...He is a surrender monkey. (that term isn’t racist, since he’s a mulatto)
It is very important for the GOP to regain the majority in Congress in 2010, then refuse to fund most of wackos’ B.S.
Beat me to it.
Most definitely yes, with additional concessions to Russia thrown in for good matter...
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