East Europe: Rancor, relief on missile shield plan

Associated Press ^ | Sept. 17, 2009 | AREL JANICEK and WILLIAM J. KOLE

[SMCC1]

PRAGUE – Czechs and Poles expressed rancor and relief Thursday that President Barack Obama had scrapped plans for a U.S. missile defense shield on their territories, reflecting deep divisions over a proposal that had also enraged Russia.

[La Lydia]

AP spinning like crazy to make Obama look like he knows what he is doing, which he so clearly doesn't. A better assessment, low down in the article:

Aleksander Szczyglo, head of Poland's National Security Office, characterized the change as a "defeat primarily of American long-distance thinking about the situation in this part of Europe."

Yes. We negotiated with ourselves and we have DEFEATED OURSELVES.

I bet Cheney is gnawing on the furniture at this point.

[george76]

Fears of Moscow run especially deep in Poland, highlighted by a key anniversary Thursday. Exactly 70 years ago — on Sept. 17, 1939 — Poland was invaded by the Soviet Union at the start of World War II.

“It’s not good,” said former Polish president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa.

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“AP spinning like crazy...”

It does indeed. Public opinion in Poland was divided over this issue and majority of Czechs were against the system being located in their country but most of these people (including me) were just thinking that they would have been taking too much risk for too little benefits and not because they believed in some lefty nonsense. Now Obama’s administration simply announced that they won't honor the government level agreement which was signed between USA and these two countries... and they did that on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland... I'm starting really to believe that Obama is a damn commie.