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Obama to Allies: Drop Dead

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President Barack Obama, 5 April, 2009:

“As long as the threat [to Eastern Europe] of Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defense system that is cost effective and proven.”

17 September, 2009: “AP NewsBreak: Nuke agency says Iran can make bomb”

17 September, 2009: “U.S. scraps [Eastern European] missile defense shield plans”.

Nevermind.

Oh, and for the record, I’ve already heard the Obamaphile talking points about the parsing of “cost-effective and proven”. Hmm: 19 June, 2009: “Hawaii getting anti-missile defense system after North Korea test threat“. Good enough for his home state, not for our allies in Eastern Europe.

Perhaps there wasn’t enough incentive to throw Hawaii to the wolves? 17 September, 2009: “ANALYSIS-US firms, others may gain from shield pullback“. (By the way, one of these firms is the Obama flag-waving GE.)

But at least all those bad old days of Blackwater and irresponsible foreign policy that only made us weaker are behind us now, no?

-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from HQ)

UPDATE (from Dan);  Seems Democrats are none too happy:

What are you getting? You’re getting the same thing you got when he sold out Honduras to Chavez over that non-coup “coup” they staged: The warm fuzzy glow of knowing that George Bush would heartily disapprove.

Comments

  1. This is a shock after we threw Israel under the bus and then defenestrated the poor Hondurans?

    It seems that the most dangerous global position is now to be America’s friend.

    The UK blogs are treating this like the big deal that it is. I wonder what the sense is down-under from our Aussie friend.

    Best wishes,
    -MFS

  2. What a damn shame for the Poles & Czechs. It’ s like the Jews, if it wasn’t for the USA they’d have no friends at all. Now Obama and the liberal Democrats abandon a freedom loving people. Don’t they know any history? To do this on the 70th anniversary of when the Soviets marched into Poland is outrageous.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
    This Democrat administration continues to be dumb and dumber. This time it’s the freedom of millions of people at stake.

  3. Is it true that the Poles and Czechs are some of the few actually helping in Afganistan with troops? Way to kick em in the balls Mr President. God is he a moron and a weakling.

  7. Gene: Yes it is true. The Poles have stood by us throughout the WoT, were one of the first nations to offer military assistance, and are one of the few Euro nations who would actually go and get some in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was actually a minor scandal about that: The Polish Special Forces unit (GROM) were cheerfully exceeding their ROE by going on ‘offensive’ operations, and the Soviet wannabees on the Polish Parliament made a stink.
    Plus there was that reality-check comment by the Polish PM, when France was making a lot of noise about how America’s planned offensve against Iraq would deprive the French government of millions of dollars of bribes through Oil-For-Food be unethical and stuff; he said, “One thing my country has learned in the past sixty years is to never trust treaties of mutual defense signed by the French. “

  9. I don’t have a problem with this.

    Look as this in pure strategic terms. Whose missiles are we potentially going to have to shoot down? Russias? Chinas? They won’t launch for the same reason they never did during the cold war- mutual assured destruction. If Russia, for whatever reason, decided to invade, SDI’ish systems would do nothing to stop them. I’m not a fan of Putin’s version of Russia, but we are no longer mortal enemies as we were thirty years ago. We no longer need to keep fighting the cold war. And besides, Russia has found a new much more effective weapon with which to wield its power… oil. Too bad we couldn’t won’t take a page from their book.

    So, we aren’t fighting the Cold War. What about the war on terror? The biggest threat is Iran. Not only do they not have a nuke, but they don’t have a missile that could carry that payload to Europe even if they did. Lets assume they do get both nuke and a medium range missile in the next five year. OK. Who will the prime target be… Israel of course. Pull up a map. There is no way that an Iranian missile aimed at Israel could be intercepted by missiles fired from Poland. Once Pakistan falls to the Islamic hardliners, which is probably inevitable, the anti-missile shield based in Europe would not protect India, their greatest foe, from attack.

    So I ask, why is it so important to have these systems in either Poland or Czechoslovakia? NATO, of which we’re a part of, the organization in charge of military defense of Europe, is on record saying they don’t think it’s necessary to have them. Conservatives used to protest the fact that so much of our military capital is spent on defending Europe, and they need to learn to sake on more of the burden – learn to stand on their own two feet. Well, here’s their chance.

    And as far as building the system in Hawaii? Better to spend our dollars protecting ourselves and our liberty for a change, instead of squandering our resources in countries that don’t want it.

    That’s it. Pick it apart my friends.

  10. The media is in full spin about how Obama’s plan is better. Here’s what they’re not saying:

    1. If Obama really intended to field a defense against short/medium range missiles, an integrated radar system in the Czech Republic would be a very useful thing to have.

    2. There doesn’t appear to be money authorized in the defense budget to begin deploying mobile, short-range missile defenses in the Eastern Mediterranean.

    This tells me Obama is lying. He is tearing down missile defense, and he doesn’t intend to replace it with anything.

  11. thank goodness for President Obama! The Polish=based missle system was a joke, as was bushco’s entire presidency. Too bad Mr. Obama can’t turn back to clock on all of bushco’s horrible decisions, particularly the appointment of those bigoted extremists roberts and allito.