Posted on 08/29/2009 4:07:32 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The Obama administration has developed possible alternative plans for a missile defense shield that could drop hotly disputed sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, a move that would please Russia and Germany but sour relations with American allies in Eastern Europe.
Administration officials said they hoped to complete their months-long review of the planned antimissile system as early as next month, possibly in time for President Obama to present ideas to President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia at a meeting in New York during the annual opening at the General Assembly of the United Nations.
But they cautioned that no decisions had been made and that all options were still under discussion, including retaining the Polish and Czech sites first selected by President George W. Bush. The Obama review team plans to present a menu of options rather than a single recommendation to a committee of senior national security officials in the coming weeks. Only after that would the matter go to cabinet-rank officials and the president.
Among the alternatives are dropping either the Polish or Czech site, or both sites, and instead building launching pads or radar installations in Turkey or the Balkans, while developing land-based versions of the Aegis SM-3, a ship-based anti-missile system, officials said. The changes, they said, would be intended not to mollify Russia, but to adjust to what they see as an accelerating threat from shorter-range Iranian missiles.
People following the review, including anxious officials in Eastern Europe, said they thought that the administration was preparing to abandon the Polish and Czech sites. “It is clear that Eastern Europe is out of the epicenter of this American administration,” said Piotr Paszkowski, a spokesman for Poland’s foreign minister. “The missile defense system is now under review. ...
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Worse than Jimmy Carter.
IMO, this is just “analysis to paralysis.” It is misdirection with the intention that we will do nothing.
I understand he has Madeline Albright and Warren Christopher on stand-by to argue the case against missle launch immediately afte the Russians or Iranians launch. Damn, is this phuking Kenyan Poseur good or what?
Remember Danzig! Remember the Sudetenland! Remember the Bay of Pigs. Remember the Iranian embassy. Will the Democrats never learn the lesson that it is wrong to appease the totalitarians?
It seems that with the current administration what at one time we considered an ally, is now deeemed an enemy and vice versa. The present Honduran situation (i.e.: lets support Hugo Chavez’s drug dealing puppet Zelaya) is foreign policy insanity.
The Democrats _are_ the totalitarians.
Plant daises! Yeah! That’ll work! Daisies always stop wars!
I think Obama has already made an informal deal with the Russians to drop missile defense in Easter Europe. He wouldn’t let Hillary Clinton attend and the over-fiights to Afghanistan has not ceased.
As are all other freedom loving peoples at the expense of appeasing every tin can dictator, muzzie, or psychopath who happens to loathe America. The Russians and Iranians will play Obozo like a cheap fiddle and laugh in his face after wards.
The Obama Administration alternative to a missile shield
soon to be like Stalin...
That looks so much like the kind of villiage Hussein admires and wants to bring to the US...
I think most Americans knew a long time ago that Obama would screw over the Poles ,and kiss the Rusians on their rear.
public spitball option?
Some more Russian butt kissing time for the Kenyan.
Putin has the birth certificate
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