And Getting Softer

Commentary Magazine ^ | January 28, 2009 | Abe Greenwald

[Jbny]

Let’s call it the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse - this time, we backed down:

Russia has dropped plans to install missiles near Poland after the Obama administration signalled a change in US attitude to the region, a Moscow military official has reportedly said.

The official suggested that Mr Obama’s White House had made clear it would not prioritise executing the Bush administration’s plan to install a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

There is supposed to be some power in soft power, is there not? As McKittrick, at Closing Velocity, points out: “Obama failed his first test.”

[Cheetahcat]

No the way I read history IMHO it was Kennedy who waffled and gave up Missiles in Turkey and Promised a hands off on Cuba effectively giving it to Russia.

[cowdog77]

Ping

[Beeline]

Hope and Change: converting missile defense development and mfg jobs into ditch digging jobs.

[JadeEmperor]

The Thor and Jupiter missiles in Turkey were already obsolete at that time. It was more of a symbolic gesture.

[ChicagahAl]

“It was more of a symbolic gesture”

Symbolic of the failure of Left-Wing US foreign policy.

[Cheetahcat]

“The Thor and Jupiter missiles in Turkey were already obsolete at that time. It was more of a symbolic gesture.”

Yes but the hands off on Cuba was and dumping 650,000 People in Miami Forever altering the demographics here.