Obama feeds allies to bear

STILL determined to "push the reset button with Rus sia," President Obama hit the delete key on our allies in Eastern Europe.

Obama's decision to abandon missile defense as we know it, cutting the throats of Poland and the Czech Republic, handed Moscow's hard-liners their biggest win since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin insisted all along that we'd never be permitted to deploy an anti-ballistic missile system in the former Soviet empire. He was right.

And Obama got nothing in return. No Russian commitments on Iran's nuclear program. No sovereignty guarantees for Georgia. No restrictions on arms sales to Venezuela. Not even a bearhug.

The way I look at it, it is another case of “chickens coming home to roost.”

Hussein was raised in a Moscow-line communist home and was educated in a Muslim country.

What can we expect? His gut-level allegiances are not those of a typical American. He’ll lean toward cow-towing to Russia and the Islamic world every time.

Obamateurism of the Day

This one’s so obvious, my e-mail has been overflowing since yesterday morning with submissions on the same point. Did no one at the White House think to look at a calendar to check to see whether their betrayal of Poland and the staunch support it gave the missile defense system just to suck up to Russia might have been better delivered on another day — in fact, any other day? This one’s so embarrassing that even the New York Times couldn’t keep from reporting it:

But it made for unfortunate timing, as Thursday is the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, a date fraught with sensitivity for Poles who viewed the Bush missile defense system as a political security blanket against Russia. Poland, along with many other countries in the former Soviet sphere, worry that Mr. Obama is less willing to stand up to Russia.

Hey trooprally heard any good P-jokes lately?

Rot in HE77 you sorry SOB

It would be a little helpful if people would ditch the Cold War mentality. Eastern Europe is just fine and “Evil Russia” is not gonna invade.

Tell that to the Georgians, who were invaded. Tell that to the Ukrainians, who had their Presidential candidate poisoned by the Russians.

Blame the U.S., eh? Like liberals, you assume that the U.S. has unlimited power to make other countries do what we want. If they don't do it, it must be the U.S.’s fault. The more accurate solution: blame the Russians for their c@#$py choice of leaders and their c@#$py choice of policies.

The truth is the ex-Soviet republics don't like the the Russians. They didn't like them when they were ruled by the Tzars and they didn't like them when they were ruled by communists. They are happy to be rid of them and don't want their domination back, especially since the Russians have turned back to authoritarianism. This astonishes and enrages the Russians, and is similar to the alienation of an alcoholic from his family members. It's his fault, not theirs, he has to deal with what he is doing wrong. They just want to live their own lives, free from others' interference. Interference which you support, obviously.

Ten years ago I would have said Russia has changed, the ex-Soviet states have nothing to fear from it any more. The Russians themselves have proved me wrong, and they prove you wrong too.

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