Posted on 08/27/2009 8:25:27 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Washington may relocate the controversial missile defense system planned for Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Turkey or Israel, a Polish newspaper reports. The U.S. plan included 10 long-range interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic. That plan will almost certainly be scrapped, Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reports. Washington is now looking for alternative locations including in the Balkans, Israel and Turkey, the daily says, citing U.S. administration officials and lobbyists based in Washington.
"The signals that the generals in the Pentagon are sending are absolutely clear: as far as missile defense is concerned, the current U.S. administration is searching for other solutions than the previously bases in Poland and the Czech Republic," Riki Ellison, chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a Washington-based lobby group, told the newspaper.
The system, meant to be ready by 2013, was aimed at defending the United States and its allies in Europe against nuclear attacks from rogue states such as Iran.
The Kremlin, however, says the planned location in Eastern Europe is compromising Russia's national security and a further sign of NATO's eastward expansion. Russia believes the alliance has turned from a security coalition into a geopolitical tool used by the United States to increase its political and economic clout in Eastern Europe.
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I agree.
And they have been pretty good allies, but I don’t think their country is politically stable enough with the Muslim influence to be able to count on against the Muslims in a crunch.
And Israel and Taiwan...
President Shimon Peres wrapped up a two-day visit to Russia Wednesday, saying the Kremlin promised to reconsider the planned delivery of S-300 air defense missiles to Iran that Israel and the US fear could be used to protect Iran's nuclear facilities.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made the pledge during their talks Tuesday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Peres said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418644694&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
There, or Israel.
I can think of no better way to stick it in the eye of communists, radical Islamists, liberals, and other mushy-headed idiots around the world.
..."the current U.S. administration is searching for other solutions than the previously bases in Poland and the Czech Republic," Riki Ellison, chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a Washington-based lobby group, told the newspaper.
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