Posted on 04/21/2014 9:43:37 AM PDT by raptor22
Russian Aggression: Instead of a foreign policy that's a blend of Neville Chamberlain and Monty Python, the U.S. should trade flexibility for some backbone, scrap the reset button and start digging some missile silos.
It takes a lot to make Jimmy Carter look like Winston Churchill. But President Obama, who bats not an eye as a Russian warplane buzzes a U.S. warship in the Black Sea, has accomplished that with his pusillanimous policy regarding Moscow's creeping anschluss in Ukraine.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's comparison of current events to the days before World War II is on the mark. On Saturday, March 7, 1936, Hitler ordered three battalions of the German army to cross the Rhine bridges into an area of Germany demilitarized by the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I.
The British and French, fearing war, did nothing. The rest, as they say, is history.
Crimea was Putin's Rhineland, and the sanctions involving travel restrictions on low-level oligarchs was laughable. Tyrants do not move swiftly. They test the waters. They nibble. They watch. Weakness and inaction only delay the inevitable.
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Obama threatened Putin with ‘consequences’ if he makes another move.
Move on. Nothing to see here. Show over. Time to focus on minimum wage and pay equity.
Hows those negotiations going with Syria and Iran?
1. If Europe wants a missile defense then why aren't they building one themselves?
2. Since Europe doesn't want a missile defense then why should we build one for them? Not to mention pay for the whole thing on our own?
Reagan would have sent the equal of Pershing IIs to Europe.
Wrong premise....Reagan would NEVER have removed the defensive armaments from Poland in the first place.....nor would he have gone on an apology tour
Trying to apply Reagan in a changed world doesn’t work. Reagan was facing down the ideological center and promoter of world Communism. Putin’s Russia may be aggressive, but it is not the same animal.
If Europe wants missile defense let them design and pay for it (leaving aside the ineffectiveness of such systems).
Between Reagan and Obama, the Paul/left/libertarians seem to prefer Obama to deal with Russian aggression.
Look for little barry to do the islamist thing. Not the right thing. EVER!
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