Stupid is as stupid does. Obama and stupid go hand in hand. He’s a f***ing pathetic narcissistic loser. He screws our allies and kisses our enemies’ asses at the drop of a hat. I am absolutely sick of this man and he’s only been in office nine months. I think Carter has company/competition for the worst president ever.
Or maybe, maybe he gave up the missile shield for Russia’s promise to leave Israel alone should they hammer Iran. The possibility must be explored. If that’s the case; then maybe he’s playing his hand a little better than I thought, but it is still dangerous to toy with Russia in this manner. Only time will tell.
I still stand by the fact that so far, he is in the running for worst president ever. Skin color be damned.
Max Boot – 09.17.2009 – 10:11 AM
The Obama administration’s decision to scrap the missile-defense sites planned for Poland and the Czech Republic is bad news. Not so much because the sites are vital to the defense of America or our allies. The administration is undoubtedly right when it says that the immediate threat posed by Iranian missiles is more short-range and that it will be a while before Iran has longer-range missiles capable of hitting Europe. Thus it makes sense to concentrate for the moment on building shorter-range missile defenses. And even longer-range sites don’t necessarily have to be located in Eastern Europe for maximum effectiveness.
All that is true. It is also irrelevant. For the issue of the missile-defense sites had long ago taken on a life of its own. They had occasioned endless bluster and threats from Putin and his gang in the Kremlin who believed, or pretended to believe, that this small number of interceptors was somehow a threat to Russia. How a purely defensive system could threaten another country remains to be understood. The Russians apparently think they have a divine right to threaten Europe with nuclear annihilation and anything that interferes with this is “destabilizing.” Actually the missile-defense sites posed no threat to Russia’s vast missile arsenal, and Putin undoubtedly knew this.
Related:
Where Do We Go for Hope?
By Jennifer Rubin
The Obama administration’s decision on missile defense, as with virtually every move the Obama team has made in foreign policy, is both deeply naive and deeply cynical. It is naive in conceiving that our adversaries simply must respond to our apologies, retreats, reversals, and unilateral-disarmament efforts with some comparable gesture, as if they fear being thought ungracious or rude if they don’t reciprocate in a timely manner. It conceives that Vladimir Putin will now find something meaningful to do for us, once relieved—thank goodness!—of the horrifying prospect that the U.S. might stand resolutely with our allies in Eastern Europe. It conceives that if we dare not speak up about the Iranian regime’s atrocities against its people, the regime will be more favorably disposed to discuss its nuclear program. It is a deeply flawed vision of the motives and interests of our adversaries. Whether it’s based on a misconception of the influence of Obama’s own persona or on other factors, is unclear. But the supposition that we can induce adversaries to react favorably by shunning our friends, disarming, and retreating from previously held positions is not supported by any precedent.
