Posted on 09/18/2009 5:44:31 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
What are you getting? You’re getting the same thing you got when he sold out Honduras to Chavez over that non-coup “coup” they staged: The warm fuzzy glow of knowing that George Bush would heartily disapprove.
But some members of Obama’s own party, however, had a simple question for the administration: if this was a return to realism, and a concession to Russia’s long and vocal opposition to the missile program, what, exactly, was the U.S. getting in return for fundamentally changing it?
And almost certainly, the answer leads back to Iran… But Russia has given no ground on those questions, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov bluntly opposing tougher sanctions. And Medvedev suggested Thursday that any new American political capital would be more likely go toward the longer-term Obama Administration goal of deep cuts to the two countries’ nuclear weapons stocks… “If they wanted to engage in a process of negotiation over this they should have been transparent with the Polish and the Czech governments,” said Randy Scheunemann, the top foreign policy advisor to the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain, who said cancelling the missiles in the countries was “seriously misguided.”
“Unilateral preemptive concession in the hope that your negotiating partners will follow suit? Anyone who believes that will work with Russia hasn’t looked at 70 years of Soviet history and 200 years of Russian history,” Scheunemann said.
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” They don’t really believe in all those ridiculous social programs they advocate. It’s a “spend money on anything but the military so to weaken us internationally” agenda”
Good observation........
So, how is your mail order whore from Moscow treating you? ;)
You were both right also, that the program spending buys them votes and keeps them in power.
We seem to have quite a few strange birds here that like and trust the Russians.
Are you talking about your daughter? ;)
If I have a daughter, she is more likely living in Panama that in Russia. Well, at least she would have a better accent and wouldn’t be supporting a deluded regime with imperial aspirations.
I wonder if the Russians got their hands on the Kenyan birth certificate.
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Them and who else.....well obambi better hope the Poles don’t get a copy. In fact, I see Larry Sinclair being interviewed on Polish TV soon.
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