Betraying Our Friends

IBD Editorials ^ | March 3, 2009

[Kaslin]

Foreign Policy: Appeasing Russia to "solve" Iran's nuclear ambitions is not the only disconcerting feature of President Obama's approach to the world. Vital friends and allies are getting America's cold shoulder.

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What sense does it make that after Ronald Reagan wins the Cold War by refusing to abandon missile defense, the United States offers it as a bargaining chip to an increasingly menacing post-Communist Russia?

And where is the wisdom in withdrawing plans to use missile defense to protect the liberated former Eastern Bloc states against a Russian aggressor willing to wage war with the former Soviet state of Georgia and use the Ukrainian pipeline to starve Europeans of natural gas — all to prevent its former satellites from aligning with the free West?

Is it any wonder that the Poles and the Czechs — who have only known freedom for a short time — now long for the days of President George W. Bush, a president willing to help them defend their liberty against aggression?

Our young, new president has reportedly written a secret letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev offering to give away the proposed missile shield if Moscow helps stop Iran from building long-range nuclear weapons.

Barack Obama supposedly had 300 foreign policy advisers during his presidential campaign.

[rednek]

"Our young, new president has reportedly written a secret letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev offering to give away the proposed missile shield if Moscow helps stop Iran from building long-range nuclear weapons"

and the Russians pissed on his leg in return,,,,,,,,,,,,,red

[Texas Fossil]

Traitorous Kenyan Commie!

[TCats]

I would say “Now long for the days of certainty in US Policy”

This is really no different than what O is doing with Fiscal Policy. We're all left in Limbo, half trying to figure out how they can get something from the Gov’t. The other half trying to figure out how to protect what they have earned from the Gov’t.

In the process, the Gov’t ‘Confiscates’ wealth by implementing Policies that trash ownership of hard assets and Stocks.

The newly independent Republics of Eastern Europe are not alone in being exposed to the risk posed by these ideologues.

[musicman]

The "murtha-looking" speaker in this toon sums it up:

[Historix]

My Great-Grandfather immigrated from an area in Poland that when he left, was part of Austria-Hungary. It’s bad enough that FDR sentanced millions of people to a 45-year Soviet rule, but now we are going to abandon them again in the hope that Russia will help stop Iranian missile development? What other outcome(s) can there be than A) A Russian ability to strike Europe with no missile defense whatsoever, or (B) Iran is thwarted from using Russian systems, in which case they may buy from North Korea, buy from China or other nation states or aquire needed components from the black market? Either way, Eastern Europe loses again, and we are played the fool.

[arthurus]

The United States under President Hussein is changing sides.

[Radix]

Krauthammer got it right tonight on Fox.

It is over. It is difficult to accept that one man's ego is greater than a Nation, but then again, this ain't the first time that such a thing has happened.

Barak has no clue to what he is doing, and if he does, then he must be Satan incarnate.

It is over except for the smoke.

Obama is nothing less than a fox in the hen house.