U.S. to relocate missile defense system

Space War ^ | 8/27/2009 | UPI

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Personally, I would like it in Turkey at Incirlik Air Base.

[guitarplayer1953]

The way BO has been dising Israel you can count them out.

[gaijin]

They’ll locate a US missile defense system for Europe in Israel...um...ok....

Will they put the US border patrol in **Greenland**...?

This is getting COMPLICATED.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Dunno, if it makes Russia more likely to want to nuke them, Obama might warm to the idea.

[NonValueAdded]

Doesn't a move much further south, closer to the likely launch sites require a MUCH FASTER response time to make the intercept? Will Barry even have time for the 3 AM phone call?

Is Poland another ally being dismissed by this strange cabal we have infesting our foreign policy? What is the strategerie?

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Huskrrrr]

The exact location will be published in the NY Times.

[oldbill]

Just take a globe and run a string from Iran to Europe and the USA and you will see why Poland and the Czech Republic were chosen.

You will also see why these sites are no threat to Russia, which has its ICBMs along the TransSiberian railroad which sends them across Siberia and the Arctic nowhere near the Polish/Czeck sites.

[Historix]

Since BHO seems to admire the legacy of FDR, it is fitting that he would sell Poland down the river again. We were cowards at Yalta and buckled to Stalin and now BHO is going to kiss Putin’s A@@ and go back on an agreement that poses no real threat to Russia. If Russia wanted to initiate a nuclear attack on the West with its many ICBM’s or bombers, will 10 ABM sites really matter that much?

[DannyTN]

"Balkans or Turkey"

Putting a missle defense to protect against an Islamic bomb in an Islamic country does NOT make sense.

[La Lydia]

Yes, especially after Poland went out on a limb for us over this, and now BO is giving the Russians exactly what they were demanding. Shameful. Shameful. Shameful.

[guitarplayer1953]

I don't think BiBi will though. He'll tell BO to stick it where the sun don't shine or knock off this crap about giving up Jerusalem.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The system would be way too small to cope with a barrage from Russia, and Russia knows that. This hurts their pride, not their security.

[Mariner]

However, by placing a strategic asset in Israel it would send a message to the world that the US will do whatever it takes to defend that asset.

That's why the ABM stuff won't go there under an Obama admin.

[Thunder90]

Besides throwing Ukraine and Georgia under the bus, Obama has now thrown Poland and the Czech Republic under it too.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Add Honduras....

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The Turks have been our allies since the beginning of the Cold War. The have provided the United States with an air base(which contains B-61 nuclear weapons and at one time Jupiter IRBM missiles) within striking distance of Moscow and other important Russian ICBM bases. This is the perfect spot because it covers both Europe and it is able to strike missiles from Russia.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The actual deployment locations of the Jupiter IRBM missiles within Turkey are still secret more than 40 years later.The central deployment base was Cigli Air Force Base.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

They have a Jupiter missile on display at Wright-Patterson AFB

[kamikaze2000]

Looks like the trend of screwing over our friends and caving in to our enemies is continuing full speed.