Poland Fears Betrayal

IBD Editorials ^ | March 23, 2009

[Fiji Hill]

I Saw Poland Betrayed by Arthur Bliss Lane
(New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1948)

Déjà vu?

[Poe White Trash]

>>> With Obama in charge, their fears are well founded. ;-) <<<

With Obama in charge, ALL fears are well founded. :-(

[prophetic]

Israel, Poland, UK and the American taxpayers are getting really crewed by this Muslime stealth terrorist.

Meanwhile he makes peace overtures to hardened terrorist states Syria, Iran and the Taliban and Al Queda, is there nothing that this evil man will not do??

[ScottinVA]

To Poland, the Czech Republic, et al. With 0bama in the Oval Office, your fears of betrayal are valid and warranted. 0bama is more interested in “resetting” the knob of relations with Russia, and yes, that does include betraying you.

55 million of us did NOT want this to come to pass. Just that there weren’t enough of us.

Sorry.

[RJL]

Yeah, but the French like us now.

But The Obama insulted them too. He sent a note to the ex pres Chirac saying how he, Obama, looked forward to working with him for the next four years.

Can you imagine if Bush or Palin sent such a letter.

[LZ_Bayonet]

" sane people are on your side."

Yes, but we are a minority.

[OrangeHoof]

Poor Poland. How were they to know when they were risking their lives to hasten the downfall of communism that they’d go running right into the arms of a country ready to embrace communism?

With friends like Obama, who needs Hitler?

[keats5]

Obama is making us a stench in the nostrils of the world.

[PTBAA]

I thought the the Russians brilliantly played the opening Obama gave them to drive a wedge between us and eastern Europe. I'm sure Obama thought he was being clever by making what he thought was a confidential offer. The Russians publicly put a positive spin on Obama's initiative when they released the existence of the letter containing Obama's offer but their real reason was to put eastern Europe on notice that America could no longer be trusted.

[wastedyears]

Poland can trust the citizens of the United States.

Our current government, not so much.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article] Now we are wishing the Iranians, whose missiles our ground-based interceptors are designed to intercept, a Happy New Year and suggesting to the Russians that if they can do something about Iran's nuclear and missile programs, we would reconsider our missile defense plans ....

Actually, the Russians have already rebuffed our suggestion of a quid pro quo and told the world they're on Iran's side.

The Russians are not going to go out of their way to help the U.S. with a proven bad player.

[Brad from Tennessee]

After Russia invaded Georgia George Bush sent the U.S. Navy into the Black Sea and delivered humanitarian aid to a Georgian Port. He was in essence daring the Russians to interfere.

Both sides knew that if the Russians attacked a U.S. vessel the action could escalate to a catastrophic level. A nuclear exchange could result in millions of U.S. and NATO casualties and massive economic and environmental damage. But modern-day Russia—to paraphrase Curtis LeMay—would be literally blasted back into the neolithic age.

This is the “diplomacy” that was used 24-7 for 50 years of the Cold War. What has changed is that nuclear parity has been replaced—for the forseeable future—by U.S. nuclear primacy.