[ZULU]

This is merely ANOTHER example of the Administration incredible ineptness on foreign policy. Its almost as if the father was guiding the son.

Putting anti-missile bases near Russia’s border’s given our strined relations, Putin’s background and the Russian traditional xenophobic persecution-complex attitudes was the height of stupidity. One would expect better from a Secretary of State who allegedly majored in Soviet affairs.

The only possible outcome of such a move is what is what we are now seeing.

The Russians and Putin in particular, were never our friends. But we shouldn’t be doing things to unnecessarily aggrevate them as it distracts from what should be our main focus - Iran.

[quant5]

There are a chain of events that begin in 2003 where Putin began making an about face in temporary strategic alliance against Islam. The missle shield is partially a strong message that we will not tolerate Russia helping the ME build the Arab bomb.

That said, I have some strong religious beliefs about Russia and those include that Russia will launch an all out nuclear attack on our country after we see a global collapse of the central banking system and a regional ME war. We have a massive technology advantage over the Russians and in there paranoid minds, it disturbs them endlessly. So when oil stops flowing and we have our moment of weakness watch the Russian bear awaken with the power of the atom. If such does indeed occur, we must not only annihalate them in return but extend the conflict to conquer their entire nation afterward to guarantee their destructive culture and attitudes never can resurface again.

[Vinnie]

Putting anti-missile bases near Russia’s border’s given our strined relations, Putin’s background and the Russian traditional xenophobic persecution-complex attitudes was the height of stupidity. One would expect better from a Secretary of State who allegedly majored in Soviet affairs.

I agree 100%.

What would we do if Russia decided to place an anti-missile system in Mexico or Canada, OR Venezuela?
And we aren't nearly as paranoid as Russia.

[Charles Martel]

This is merely ANOTHER example of the Administration incredible ineptness on foreign policy. Its almost as if the father was guiding the son.

Never mind Bush the Elder, where the HELL is Condoleeza Rice hiding? I thought she was the sh!t-hot expert on the Russians. This stuff (the North Pole thing, bomber flights near our airspace, etc.) has been going on for months now, yet I've seen no quotes from her, no blurbs about her advising the President, nothing at all.