Noteworthy:
"These are the facts about the European sites, but the Obama administration appears to be caving in the face of Russian rhetoric. With the Obama administration desperate for an arms control deal, the Russians have made their intentions clear: no START agreement unless U.S. missile defenses are also limited.A long range threat from Iran that "doesn't exist?" She probably thinks the same thing about North Korea.The Russians are savvy negotiators. The same cannot be said of Team Obama.
President Obama has responded to Russian bluster about missile defense by announcing his intention to cut the missile defense budget by 15 percent in FY2010, slashing funding for construction of the European sites in Poland and the Czech Republic by 80 percent, and appointing a leading Congressional skeptic of the European sites, Rep. Ellen Tauscher, who has accused her opponents of 'running around with their hair on fire about a long range threat from Iran that does not exist,' as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, the top State Department official tasked with advancing missile defense discussions with Russia and our European allies.
These actions, combined with the administration's seeming lack of interest in confronting Russia on human rights and other 'uncomfortable' topics do not leave the Obama administration with a good negotiating hand.
If he abandons the European missile defense sites, President Obama will have succeeded in empowering the ayatollahs in Tehran and the autocrats in Moscow, and will concomitantly put our allies in central and Eastern Europe on notice that they are merely bargaining chips to be discarded when it is convenient.
Since it "doesn't exist" now means it can be safely ignored for the longer term in these feeble minds.
How typical of this Obamanation. And how dangerous for our country.
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