President Obama has shown how not to conduct statesmanship. He retreated from our allies the Poles and Czechs for no reason other than Russia was upset that they were now under the umbrella of liberty and American security. Ralph Peters accurately sums up Obama's disastrous decision: "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. "
Sounds a little like Jimmy Carter, the peanut-farming race baiter in chief, who gave up the Panama Canal for: you guessed it, nothing in return. Peters goes on to say, "Putin, Russia's new czar, sees this as a triumph of his will over Obama's weak, retreating US. And he's right."
Donald Rumsfeld once observed that weakness is destabilizing. He was right, and Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and others will test how weak Obama really is.
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2 comments:
What you are calling a retreat from Poland and the Czech Republic was actually a recognition that the proposed missile defense system for those two countries was completely useless. And it is not true that the US got nothing in return, as now can be seen that Russia will cooperate with us in pressuring Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions.
Mr. Markowitz,
You seem like a successful lawyer and intelligent man, but you're mistaken as to the effectiveness of the missile defense system originally planned for Czech Rep and Poland.
The interceptors have proven effective time and again with tests from launches in California and Alaska. Missile defense is not one system, but a layered system of multiple defenses from THAAD, to Exo-atmospheric kill vehicles, sea based Aegis systems, and others.
That Obama gave up a layer of defense for nothing in return is rather pathetic. We've returned to the days of Jimmy Carter. Obama was completely wrong when he said at the UN that zero-sum foreign policy is a thing of the past. Foreign policy is always zero-sum and always will be because power vacuums are always filled by something or someone.
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