I Saw Poland Betrayed by Arthur Bliss Lane
(New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1948)
Déjà vu?
Posted on 03/23/2009 5:53:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
Alliances: The U.S. has expressed a willingness to barter away missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. Now the Polish foreign minister says he hopes his country doesn't regret trusting the United States.
One of the pressing issues discussed at this year's conference was whether the U.S. is serious about bartering away plans for missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic in exchange for vague Russian promises of using its influence on Iran regarding its move toward developing nuclear warheads to put on its long-range missiles.
On Sunday, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski noted that Poland had taken "something of a political risk" in agreeing to the deployment of 10 ground-based interceptors on its territory. "When we started discussing this with the United States," he said, "the U.S. assured us they would persuade the Russians that it was purely defensive and it would be a noncontroversial decision."
Now we are wishing the Iranians, whose missiles our ground-based interceptors are designed to intercept, a Happy New Year and suggesting to the Russians that if they can do something about Iran's nuclear and missile programs, we would reconsider our missile defense plans and saw off the limb our Czech and Polish allies have climbed out on.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates did not ease our allies' fears when he said at a NATO meeting in Krakow, Poland, on Feb. 20, "I told the Russians a year ago that if there were no Iranian missile program, there would be no need for the missile sites."
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Obama and the dems sure know how to ruin things. :( We’re gonna lose our good allies one at a time if the DNC keeps going the direction they’re going.
With Obama in charge, their fears are well founded. ;-)
Yeah, but the French like us now.
Poland fears betrayal....
There is a reason.
I don't really trust Raytheon gear to perform as advertised, but I still trust Raytheon infinitely more than Putin.
Plan according Poland.
This just makes me SICK!!! Can we impeach this idiot, yet?
So do a lot of Americans.
The United States and it sane people are on your side. Its the Communist government of Obama that wants to do you in and side with his friends in the Muslim/Communist world.
I know I’m going to be accused of beating a dead horse but really, 4 months isn’t that long ago and this election of Obummer is such a disaster, on so many levels, on so many fronts, that it’s worth looking back and asking how and why.
How could McStupid lose to this commie crud?
Why did it happen?
McStupid threw the election. Plain and simple. He threw it in the name of bipartisanship. And in the name of bipartisanship he refused to predict the obvious:
Economic disaster. Military dismemberment. Global surrender.
It didn’t take a genius to win last November against Commie Obama... it just took the courage to stand up and say:
He will do this. He will do that. You will be sorry.
Instead, McStupid lectured his own followers (and boy were we stupid!) about how they must be nice and say nice things about the stinking commie traitor Obama.
McStupid.
He’s the reason we’re in this mess. And it’s a deep, dark terrible mess.
Sorry, Poland, but you will be betrayed.
The Democrats are in charge now, so it is dangerous to be an American ally.
You will be following in the path of South Vietnam, Iran and others who had the misfortune to trust us and then have a Democrat stab them in the back. And behind you will be the next on the betrayal list, those who have helped us when we needed it in the War on Terror - Australia, Canada, Netherlands, and Britain.
Oops - Britain already got a taste of it with Obama’s treatment of Gordon Brown.
The Germans did. They allowed the U.S. to place INF missiles in Germany in spite of widespread opposition, only to see them yanked out again 5 years later.
Problem is, a country like Poland has no choice but to trust the U.S., even if we have a very uneven track record for sticking to our friends. Obama will throw the Polacks under the bus in a heartbeat if it means playing kissy face with the Russians.
I hope I'm wrong about this.
BTW, am I the only one who feels guilty about abandoning Georgia?
Poland Fears Betrayal....for obvious and very good reasons.
We have dug our own graves. I will not go down without a fight. What bothers me the most, however, is that we have absolutely betrayed the younger generation, who will be either dead or slaves. And we have also made a mockery out of everything all those brave American soldiers died for in the past.
You’d think they’d be used to it by now.
I wouldn't go that far..... Obami isn't in good graces with them either. Seems he wrote a letter to Chirac saying he looks forward to working with [Chirac] him.... Only problem is Sarkozy is the president now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212290/posts
It's sad that you are right.
Déjà vu?
>>> With Obama in charge, their fears are well founded. ;-) <<<
With Obama in charge, ALL fears are well founded. :-(
Meanwhile he makes peace overtures to hardened terrorist states Syria, Iran and the Taliban and Al Queda, is there nothing that this evil man will not do??
To Poland, the Czech Republic, et al. With 0bama in the Oval Office, your fears of betrayal are valid and warranted. 0bama is more interested in “resetting” the knob of relations with Russia, and yes, that does include betraying you.
55 million of us did NOT want this to come to pass. Just that there weren’t enough of us.
Sorry.
But The Obama insulted them too. He sent a note to the ex pres Chirac saying how he, Obama, looked forward to working with him for the next four years.
Can you imagine if Bush or Palin sent such a letter.
Yes, but we are a minority.
Poor Poland. How were they to know when they were risking their lives to hasten the downfall of communism that they’d go running right into the arms of a country ready to embrace communism?
With friends like Obama, who needs Hitler?
Obama is making us a stench in the nostrils of the world.
Poland can trust the citizens of the United States.
Our current government, not so much.
Actually, the Russians have already rebuffed our suggestion of a quid pro quo and told the world they're on Iran's side.
The Russians are not going to go out of their way to help the U.S. with a proven bad player.
Both sides knew that if the Russians attacked a U.S. vessel the action could escalate to a catastrophic level. A nuclear exchange could result in millions of U.S. and NATO casualties and massive economic and environmental damage. But modern-day Russia—to paraphrase Curtis LeMay—would be literally blasted back into the neolithic age.
This is the “diplomacy” that was used 24-7 for 50 years of the Cold War. What has changed is that nuclear parity has been replaced—for the forseeable future—by U.S. nuclear primacy.
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