Posted on 09/27/2009 8:07:40 AM PDT by lizol
Obama's Delusionary March Toward Utopia
"The Americans have opted out of building an anti-missile system. … This may mean a chillier era in Polish-American relations. … The Kremlin killed several birds with one stone: U.S. soldiers will not appear 125 miles from Russia’s European border; 'Russia-phobic' Poland has been humiliated; and Moscow's prestige as an influential player has been boosted."
By Marek Magierowski
Translated By Halszka Czarnocka
September 18, 2009
The Americans have opted out of building an anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic for three reasons.
First, they came to recognize that Iran will not soon be able to threaten Europe with its rockets - let alone the United States. Secondly, they decided to sacrifice the shield on the altar of good relations with Russia. Thirdly, they ultimately concluded that land bases in Eastern Europe are too expensive.
That step may mean the beginning of a chillier epoch in Polish-American relations. The promise of further collaboration on a new system Defense Secretary Gates proposed in a statement may apply in 2015 at the earliest. In 2015, Barack Obama may no longer be president, or Robert Gates, Defense Secretary. A new system may come about … or not. Apart from that: what Polish prime minister would now sign an agreement with the U.S. government without fearing, a few months later, of being left out in the cold?
Even if Obama proposes something to soften the blow, the manner in which the Americans reneged on the shield and the date they chose to announce it [September 17, the date of the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland] arouses disgust.
The only capital city where enthusiasm reigned on Thursday [Sept. 17] was Moscow. That's understandable, since for Russia, the issue of stopping the shield project was a test of its geopolitical power. The Kremlin killed several birds with one stone: American soldiers will not appear 200km [125 miles] from Russia’s European border; “Russia-phobic” Poland has been humiliated; and it boosts Moscow’s prestige as an influential player on the international stage. Russian leaders seem encouraged by the softness of Washington. They send an insulting letter to the president of Ukraine; threaten the Georgian fleet; and have spoken of armed intervention to protect its citizens abroad.
[Editors Note: In August, Russian President Medvedev sent a letter to Ukraine President Yushchenko, blaming Ukraine for deteriorating relations. In recent years there have been gas disputes; Ukraine has sought to join NATO and expelled what they believed were Russian spies; and Ukrainian interpretations of the Stalin-era famine in Ukraine irk Moscow. Russia is also upset that Ukraine supplied weapons to Georgia during Russia's invasion of that country last year].
Oh, yes, Moscow will repay the Americans: it will impose new sanctions against Iran and agree to bilateral limits on the number of nuclear warheads (which it cannot maintain anyway). This is exceptionally little for Russia to pay for such a cornucopia of benefits.
Barack Obama is apparently following the mirage of a safe world without nuclear weapons, without rogue states and without terrorism - and with America, Russia, China, the E.U. and the United Nations safeguarding global peace. He may, however, find it impossible to realize his utopian calculations.
What if Russia, in exchange for reducing its nuclear arsenal, also demands that Washington stop promoting the pro-Western ambitions of Ukraine and Georgia? Or suppose the Kremlin insists on a greater role in shaping the strategy of NATO? What if turns out, however, that Iran is closer to building a nuclear weapon than we think? Closer, for example, than it seems to the CIA, which let us recall was surprised by the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War [1973], the Iranian Revolution or the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Nor did it predict the collapse of the Soviet Union; it shamed itself on September 11, 2001 and then found “unshakeable evidence” of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
What if this time again, the CIA’s outstanding analysts and spies (among whom 72 percent speak exclusively English) are wrong?
Then we’ll wake up in a new old world.
From Obamas new book - soon to be released.....
....."Dreams of My Mommy"
His mother pumped his head full of Utopian mush. The world is being drug kicking and screaming into the experimental world of the Utopians. The result if carried out to its logical end is predictable.
The bad guys of the world are licking their chops.
The appropriate adjective is delusional.
His handlers believe in a New World Order and he has to follow their orders—or no more campaign funds.
The Chicago ghetto is Obama’s utopia.
Hopefully the Poles and the Czechs will learn their lesson. American foreign policy runs hot and cold.
When there is a Republican president, they have a friend in the White House, and if that friend offers them something, accept it and quickly, and request iron assurances that it cannot be taken back, and that the vast majority of it should be “ballooned” at the beginning, with only incidental trim done after that presidency, if at all.
When there is a Democrat president, they are on their own, so should plan accordingly. They have to assume that in these times, neither the US, nor the rest of Europe, will come to their defense. So their respective militaries should not only be designed to fend off Russia, but to team up to do so.
In fact, it would not be out a bad idea for the eastern European nations to recreate the Warsaw Pact, but in this case for mutual self defense against Russia. The EU military is a paper tiger, and have neither the strength or the will to stand up for eastern Europe, and in fact may even try to undermine eastern self-defense to again spare themselves the threat of Russian aggression.
Having said this, it would be very wise for those eastern nations that have ex-pat communities in the US, to encourage them to support the Republican party, because in doing so, they may help to protect their family ancestral homeland.
The idiot can’t do anything right Russis chuckles.
Why aren’t all big liberal cities utopias? hmmm.. I like to ask people that. They never have an answer.
Glimpse of the future. We're all Detroiters.
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