Posted on 03/02/2009 1:23:55 PM PST by icwhatudo
President Obama offered to consider scrapping plans for a missile defense shield in Europe if Russia helps rein in Iran's nuclear program, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported.
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Obama inherited plans to build the system in Poland and the Czech Republic from the Bush administration, but the new administration has equivocated over the project. Though the plans were put in place to deter nations like Iran and North Korea from launching attacks and developing nuclear weapons, Russia has interpreted the planned installation as a threat.
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Bambi doesn’t play chess.
Tell me how Russian “cooperation” will stop the Iranian missiles? Talk about a disprportionate action. Obama just wants to destroy missile defense.
Yeah, that’s mine. I know it’s racist, but I’m already scheduled for reeducation, so it doesn’t matter.
Actually, it’s a corruption of “Sepia Serenaders”, a jazz group from the thirties.
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Actually, the ones that have put it on the line for us have been the British and the Canadians, as usual. I give Poland, the Czech Republic and other states thanks for their cooperation and sacrifices...but if Europe (collectively) doesn’t regard either Russia or rogue states like Iran as threats, then why should we insist on a U.S.-funded missle shield?
“We should focus on an effective North American missile defense shield, and if the Canadians won’t help, we should work around them. “
haha this is just the first step to dismantling our own missile defense.
Obama is President Public Relations. All he does is make speeches and try to look pretty and innocent. He’s the perfect tool.
“but if Europe (collectively) doesn’t regard either Russia or rogue states like Iran as threats, then why should we insist on a U.S.-funded missle shield?”
because they really are threats.
hmm, isn’t the mission in Afghanistan a...NATO mission? Is that Europe taking care of itself?
and who pushed for Poland et al to become part of NATO... wasn’t that largely....us?
and who, for commercial and national security reasons probably wanted to protect missile defense shield technology in a proprietary way...would that be...us?
and if europe’s security is breached and europe gets attacked, where does that leave...us? It’s “their” problem?
Bamsters reasoning is nutty. It presumes the missile threat to europe comes from Iran and the russians can and will curb that if we leave europes flank exposed to the russians. What sense does that make? How is this little deal in europe’s interest?
With us reneging on decades of assurances and planning ... who or what curbs the russian missile threat against europe? yes, Putin and his generals might actually pose one.
thank you
Time will tell. I hope you are right, but I am not confident in it. They circle the wagons, we eat our own.
Keep the missile shield and destroy the Iranian regime nuclear facilities. That is what a true leader does. But Obama is not a leader.
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We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
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Me either. Just hoping against hope.
No surprise here, I have said that he would abandon Poland since the day he was elected. Look for Taiwan to be next and then Israel.
Sure he does. He just that his advisers are coaching him to throw the match to the opponent.
Obama will give the weapons tech to Russia in exchange for Russia not helping Iran anymore. However, Russia will still help Iran behind the scenes.
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