In another display of lunacy, Obama has announced that he intends to scrap plans for European deployment of a missile defense shield. In doing so, Obama is turning his back on our European allies in order to appease Russia.The missile defense shield, which would have consisted of interceptor missiles based in Poland and radar installations in the Czech Republic, was publicly intended as a defense against long range missiles under development by Iran. The less public intention was to defend Europe against all missile threats, including those from Russia. Russia has really been pissed off about this, and has made no secret that the shield's impact upon Russia's vast nuclear aresenal was not appreciated. Russia doesn't want Europe to have any defense against her missiles - to help keep the European countries in line.
The shield has no offensive capability at all - it is entirely defensive in nature and capability.
So, Obama caves in to Russia, bending over and spreading them for Putin and Medvedev. He turns his back on our friends. A perfect example of Obama's foreign policy in action.
Update - as if the his decision to pull interceptors out of Poland wasn't bad enough, Obama had Hillary Clinton call the Polish Prime Minister the night before the announcement to inform him of the decision. The PM refused to take Clinton's call, rightfully so. Protocol dictates such conversations take place between heads of state - Obama's use of Clinton instead of placing the call himself is an insult to the PM and to Poland.
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Again, I think this shows inexperience on the part of the White House. (And some immaturity, too -- "you do it, I'm not gonna call".)
He does not see a big picture or further down the line how this works, it's right here, right now, "oh, I know, let's do this!!" With not enough thought to the future or any ramifications from actions such as these.
He's actually doing exactly what the left thinks diplomacy is - making everyone around the world like you.
I read an intersting op-ed yesterday - it pointed out that while Obama is 'loved' around the world, it hasn't been of any benefit at all to our international relations. Not one country has come around to our side, or done something beneficial to the US, or changed their behavior, since Obama got in office.
They love to have their picture taken with him, they heap praise on him, and then take advantage of his weakness - he's the perfect President in our enemy's opinion.
Although Obama has taken this to extremes, the past two Democrat Presidents, Catrer and Clinton, were the same way - weak, smiling suckups whose most important goal is to be liked.
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