Posted on 09/17/2009 10:21:45 PM PDT by Abakumov
President Obama is making so many foreign-policy blunders that he is starting to make us yearn for the national-security acumen of the Carter administration. His official announcement scrapping the planned missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic was long expected but still landed with a thud. It is hard to remember a strategic choice that is so obviously wrong on so many levels.
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The next president will have to rebuild our alliances.
Reagan II
How damned stupid and reckless can he be? Very.
Will we ever get to a time when the Poles wont be sold down the river by the great powers? Their morale must be very, very low at the moment. And Ukraine and Georgia need to look east I suppose, no reason to look west.
>The next president will have to rebuild our alliances.
Somehow I suspect that the next president will have his/her hands full getting us through whichever wars Obama’s policy of preemptive surrender has not managed to prevent!
Obama is a product of the Jeremiah Wright Church of hatred.
You have no right to expect anything better.
Looks like Prime Minister Putin has a few Aces in his hand! One can bet that most of tne Personal Secrets OBOZO HUSSEIN is hiding from the American Public are in P.M. PUTIN’S Files. We remember that PUTIN stated that OBOZO is ILLEGITIMATE and hence all agreements made with him will be null and void at some time in the future. Yo give Putin this big a gift on an Ammiversary so bitter to the people of Poland and the Czech Republic is Horrific and something Mr. Putin surely benefits greatly with....HMMMMMMMMMM!
Hard to believe they talked about Bush so bad. His foreign policy decisions kept our allies assured and our enemies in check.
Americans of Polish heritage are going to be organizing against obambi super strong now.
“Obama is a product of the Jeremiah Wright Church of hatred.
You have no right to expect anything better.”
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Actually: Obama is the product of bi-sexual pedophile Communist 699 page FBI file Frank M. Davis who wrote in his very crappy poem, “March on noble Red Army”, -————— as you kill and rape millions.
Why wouldn’t he want to give the Russians a gift? He has been raised this way since childhood, but hid it all that he could up until now.
He certainly likes them much better than us —— remember his mommy studying Russian in 1959 as an under aged 17 year old pregnant freshman college student with an African married boyfriend.???
Gee, you sure met those everyday in 1959 !!!!!
What’s so strange?
Whattaya lookin’ at ????
March on Red Army, Obama will certainly help you every way he can!
Yo, big O. Cancel some more of our defenses why don’t you?
F-22s, finest fighter in the world! Cancel them! The janitors need more free health care from the guvmint !!!!!!!!!!!!!
THe unions need more $100,000 a year retirement packages since they never worked while they were employed anyway!
A billion here, a billion there -—— it NEVER adds up to real numbers for these clowns.
17% unemployment!!!
Tax revenues down 40% !!!!!!!!!!!
Obama=Acorn
Barney=Male prostitution from his home !!!!!!
Pelosi=Liar
Shout it from the rooftops !!!!!!!!!
Obama is doing what terrorists have failed to do so far.
There are almost no blacks in Georgia, Ukraine, and Poland. Therefore it must be the "Wright thing" to throw them under the bus.
Which means that President Sarah Palin can just go back on all of it with a smile.
Russia relies heavily on their oil exports. Obama and his congressional allies help autocratic nations like Russia and Venezuela by dis-allowing any new drilling in the U.S. Obama’s a great friend of autocratic states in many ways.
Did he say this before or after the election?
I think they parked a bulldozer over my grandpas grave to keep him from coming after the Zero.
Opinion:
President Obama is not stupid.
He has an agenda.
He’s fulfilling it.
Photos included.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil//news/newsarticle.aspx?id=55889
European Missile Plan Offers Better Defense, Gates Says
By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2009 – Changing threats and emerging technologies drove the decision to restructure the European missile defense plan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today.
“I believe this new approach provides a better missile defense capability for our forces in Europe, for our European allies and eventually for our homeland than the program I recommended almost three years ago,” Gates said in a briefing at the Pentagon. “It is more adapted to the threat we see developing and takes advantage of new technical capabilities available to us today.”
In December 2006, Gates recommended to then-President George W. Bush that the United States should put advanced radars in the Czech Republic and 10 ground-based interceptors in Poland.
That was when intelligence officials gauged the development of Iran’s intercontinental ballistic missile as the foremost threat to the United States and its allies.
Now, intelligence reports paint a different picture – that the country is moving faster to develop its shorter-range missiles.
Gates responded by recommending to President Barack Obama that the United States now begin phasing in a missile defense system that puts radars and missiles in place sooner that are more suited to protect against the current threat. Plans are then to continue building on the system to increase its range of defense capabilities.
The president today announced his support of the plan.
“This new approach will provide capabilities sooner, build on proven systems, and offer greater defenses against the threat of missile attack than the 2007 European missile defense program,” Obama said today.
Driving the initial phase of the new plan is deploying the Navy’s Aegis weapons-system-equipped ships to the region by 2011. These are equipped with the Standard Missile 3 interceptor, which has had several successful tests in the past two years. They will be supported by some forward-position Army radar systems.
This will give the military a smaller range of detection and protection, but is enough initially to protect U.S. troops and allies against Iran’s shorter range missiles.
“We can now field initial elements of the system to protect our forces in Europe and our allies roughly six to seven years earlier than the previous plan,” Gates said.
As the SM-3 is improved, defense officials will look for positions in Europe to put them on the ground. Talks already are under way with both Poland and the Czech Republic, Gates said.
Additional sensors and more interceptors will be added and by 2020 the system will grow to cover all of Europe and have the capability to knock down multiple targets. It also will give the military the flexibility to move some of its assets to different fronts to combat new threats, Gates said.
“This gives us at least some capability early on and then an increasingly enhanced capability through this entire period,” Gates said.
Flexibility is key to the plan, officials said. Originally, the plan centered on the idea of defending against three to five missiles fired from a single rogue nation. Now they believe the United States could have to defend against several missiles simultaneously.
This makes the SM-3 ideal for the job as it is more deployable and cheaper for the military to use against such threats. One Aegis ship can carry about 100 of the interceptors. Also, SM-3s cost about $10 million each, as opposed to a ground-based interceptor — like those now on standby in Alaska and California — that top out at about $70 million.
Another feature of the new system is that other countries can combine their radars and interceptors with the United States to increase its range. Many countries already use the Aegis system, and the Japanese already have promised $1 billion toward the development of the improved SM-3, officials said.
“This is a significant opportunity to work in a global construct to both field and fund and maintain this capability in a way that we had not been able to do in the past,” said Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also at today’s briefing. “We are looking at other partners, both in the sensor and the weapons side, because it does not have to be just American weapons and just American sensors.”
Biographies:
Robert M. Gates
Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright
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