"OMG, this guy is really out of his league."
Posted on 03/02/2009 7:57:54 PM PST by publius1
First off, Iran has put far too much effort (resources) into their missile program to be dissuaded now. Second, their "leadership" has far too much political capital at home invested in it to give it up and appear weak to the masses. Finally, Obama is niave in the extreme to think we're the only focus of Iran's aggression.
Does Iran want to threaten the US with missiles? Certainly. Why else would they bother going to the expense of developing missiles of sufficient range to hit us? But they also want and need short and medium range missiles to threaten their neighbors and other countries they'd like to influence. Therefore, to Iran, a missile defense system in Eastern Europe is only part of the equation. Yes they'd like it to go away, yes they'd still like to be able to threaten us, but there are other people on their list too. In short, they are not going to trade away their missile program for so many targets over just one.
However, this won't stop Russia from taking advantage of Obama. They'll sell him a bill of goods, make a back-channel deal with Iran to not only help them (to our detriment), but also make a hard currency profit at it too. Going to the Russians to act as a proxy to stop Iran's missile program is even dumber than trying to appoint a tax cheat to head up the Treasury Dept. What's next, spring someone from Gitmo and put them in charge of Homeland Security?
“...to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States ...”
Amazing.
Ask the people (Russians) responsible for the Iranian nuclear snowball getting started to help stop it.
It’s much easier to felate your superiors when there’s nothing in your way.
Emperor bammy is just getting his kneepads out for putin.
Is this sort of like Neville Chamberlain selling out Czechoslovakia to Hitler for "peace in our time"???
“officials who described the contents of the message requested anonymity”
ah c’mon and stand up Chuck- or Boris- or whoever you are. We really appreciate your leaking the contents of secret hand delivered letters. It keeps hillary clinton in touch with bamsters real foreign policy.
"OMG, this guy is really out of his league."
Obama is stupid if he thinks that Putin will look at this as anything other than weakness.
BHO to Putin, “We wont stop you from taking Eastern Europe, just tell Iran to chill until we pull out of Iraq.”
Why sell out the missile defense? Why do we need Russia’s help in this? I mean Iran is a small country that is no threat to us. Obammy said so himself.
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