I’m having difficulty working it out. Is it because:
- …we get absolutely nothing out of this?
- …it brazenly goes against previous national security agreements made between the United States and what were, prior to this morning, staunch regional allies?
- …it came out of nowhere, to the point where the ranking Republican Senator on Armed Services is asking why this suddenly appeared?
- …it is fairly clearly a desperate domestic-policy bone thrown to a liberal base currently coming to a boil over the Democrats’ slow-motion collapse on health care?
- …or is it because they announced it on THE SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOVIET INVASION OF POLAND, YOU DAFT, HISTORICALLY ILLITERATE, IDIOTS?!?
…or should I just embrace the healing power of ‘and?’
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Obamacave like Obamacare
khayos Thursday, September 17th at 1:54PM EST (link)Costs far outweigh benefits
I Like It. "Another ObamaCave." HE'S A WIMP!
farstar99 (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:35PM EST (link)“Obama’s a wimp.”
Why not? They did it to GHWB.
Perhaps this?
Cargosquid (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 2:03PM EST (link)VIENNA (AP) – Experts at the world’s top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.
That too.
ranthony (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 6:18PM EST (link)And Venezuela
Beaglescout (Diary) Friday, September 18th at 2:53PM EST (link)Medvedev is visiting Chavez in Venezuela to discuss Russia’s nuclear and ballistic technology assistance to the Chavez regime.
And in the meantime, GE is heading to Russia to negotiate for business that so far has not been available to it. Follow the money?
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
I am amazed that Secretary Gates
suzieQ (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 2:06PM EST (link)and the Joint Chiefs are going along with this.
“Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition.” – Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich Co-Sponsored a Global Warming Bill Calling for ‘International Agreement on Population Growth’
“I would have signed the assault weapon ban that came to his desk. I said I would have supported that and signed a similar bill in our state.” – Mitt Romney 2008
Gun Owners Of America on Mitt Romney
Combination of things, really
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:58PM EST (link)(1) They answer to Obama
(2) No guts or moral courage
(3)They answer to Obama
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
By the time a guy gets to Joint Chiefs
Tbone (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:05PM EST (link)he is probably an accomplished butt kissing politician rather than a military professional. (See Colin Powell)
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
I watched Secty Gates try to swallow the crap
rcov092 (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 10:29PM EST (link)sandwich like a good soldier. Since he is a company man, he tried his best. However, I do not for minute he believed any of what he said.
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Jimmy Carter just told me ...
twobeers Thursday, September 17th at 2:10PM EST (link)that the most offensive part of this missile defense cave is your obvious racism.
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And, yes,
twobeers Thursday, September 17th at 2:11PM EST (link)I am being sarcastic. Just in case you couldn’t tell.
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Words Fail - but I have some anyway
glorybee Thursday, September 17th at 2:11PM EST (link)The actions of the Administration are incomprehensible unless one comes to the realization that it (liberal fascists) WANT America to fail in order to declare absolute power.
If you're a bully, a coward, and have no moral compass,
Steph C (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:10PM EST (link)his actions make perfect sense. He only bullies people he’s assured of being able to control without reprisal.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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It's the Kanye West foreign policy
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:12PM EST (link)Taking a bullying, thuggish stand against someone who would have been your friend.
55555555-nt
DONTREADONME (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:31PM EST (link)thanks DROM and Jack
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 6:42PM EST (link)glad you 5′d it, I added Jacks to my list of Quotes (using one liners to get people to think (one-liner quotes/jabs) and more here (in PSS))
Good one Jack
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10-4
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 7:15PM EST (link)I’m flattered to be included.
In my mind, it is either..
paulincolo (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 2:20PM EST (link)1. He actually believes the claptrap of we want the world to think of the US as a friendly, non-interventionist nation, unlike that evil G.W. Bush (reset)
and/or
2. He wants to be friends with the marxist, commie, socialist and islamo-fascist governments and not our former democratic allies.
Obama aligns himself with the
redneck_hippie (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 8:34PM EST (link)worst regimes in the world because they share his belief in collectivism, socialism and tyrrany.
Bing! Got it in one. (nt)
The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, September 18th at 5:02AM EST (link)If you the U.S. as a cancer upon the world body politic
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 2:26PM EST (link)…then this makes perfect sense.
Especially if you believe American Exceptionalism is imperialism and exploitation, if you believe that our founding fathers were racists and our documents are a barrier to a new world utopia and that freedom and market economics causes poverty and injustice, that laws and Constitutional jurisprudence prevent the state from its rightful control of people’s lives – then anything that removes the U.S. from effectively impacting other nation’s governance is to be promoted.
Is there anything in the track record of our President and his key appointees that indicates their disagreement with the above sentiments? I don’t see any…
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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That should be "If you see the U.S. as a cancer..."
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 2:28PM EST (link)Why can’t I see these title typos before I publish.
Comment preview would sure be appreciated,
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
O's just happy he can *do* something without having to go through messy Congress....
Crowe (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 2:30PM EST (link)….as Mel Brooks said, “It’s good to be the king.”
Think about it from O’s perspective. He was elected to be king, right? I mean “I won,” and all… And ever since his one free cheap shot to the jaw of the American people he’s had to deal with the cold reality of governance in a center-right country (that is, admittedly, prone to adolescent fits and distraction by shiny objects). This was just another “I can do this all by myself and I don’t need to ask anyone’s permission. So there. Pththththththththbt!
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Independents (read: morons) You were warned/told and knew it would happen - Now do something!
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 3:13PM EST (link)The Surrender Doctrine in full force/effect….
None of any of what Obama and the Obamunists are doing wasn’t predictable and easy to see coming (to have heard from their own mouths) to those even remotely paying attention. There was/is simply ZERO excuses anyone has to have voted for this intentionally AND MAKE NO MISTAKE IF YOU VOTED DEMOCRAT AT ALL YOU DO SO KNOWINGLY – feigning ignorance isn’t going to cut it anymore!!!!
Is the next TEApeats going to be Thanksgiving?!?!? So we can both give Thanks for the things that make this country great and demand we not allow Liberals to further erode them?!?!?
Plan to attend a TEApeat Thanksgiving, next Tax Day and 4th of July 2010, etc…
Contact the other sites and urge them to organize for the subsequent dates also:
Tea Party Revolution site
Tea Party Patriots
FreedomWorks
Alliance Defense Fund
archive:
Organize an UNOFFICIAL non-permit TEApeat (info)
Congress – Here’s Your Sign, TEApeat: 912
09/12/09 DC Tax Protest
Tea Party Express
RS: Tax Day TEApeat Open Thread
ReTeaParty (for 4th of July) site
Tax Day Tea Party site (w/ Daily email update option)
Tea Party Convention (June 13, 2009)
Atlanta Tea Party
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
I plan to go to an "Oath Keepers" chapte meeting tonight
ColdWarrior (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:09PM EST (link)to try to recruit precinct committeemen.
I’m trying to look on the bright side — Obama’s further implementation of his Surrender Doctrine should help me better make the case why these guys and gals need to become PCs.
Thank you.
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How can they sit on the Couch?
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:44PM EST (link)Do they think they are safe there? If they hide with their head buried in Primetime TV it will somehow all pass by them?
All questions to prod them with…. especially in this increased full-court press of Liberals misuse Religion for Liberal Govt. expansion (Thx for that reco, btw) and attempts to Separate folks from Church to State and as they are laying on with everything being some “Moral imperative”…. Morals? From Godless (just go to Church [Rev. Wright] for show) Democrats?!?!?
God Bless my friend and Good Luck… we need many, many, many, recruits to ensure we pull the Republican Party back where it belongs and can/will keep it there!!!
It is woeful that some have worked for decades while others sat around and did nothing. It is time they get off the couch and step up!
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
I understand the thinking, but realistically
4life (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:40PM EST (link)local Teapeats sound good, but I wouldn’t count on a repeat of the DC tea party three times in the coming year. I would wait for a DC Teapeat until 9/12/10. That will be a perfect visible pre-election stand. I see next year’s being even bigger. From someone who flew in for the DC Tea Party I would absolutely recommend it, but realistically I could not afford to do that more than once in a year. I would go to a local one on tax day and maybe on the 4th, depending on family obligations. You will not get as many people taking overnight busses if it is done too often. So, I vote for local or state parties for the other dates and another big DC event on 9/12/2010.
It's like you always say Moe.
NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 3:23PM EST (link)They told me if I voted for John McCain there would be a number of foreign policy blunders, and they were right!.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
a few, over every single time - sounds good right now - and what of Biden in Baghdad
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:33PM EST (link)I certainly don’t wish any harm on anyone so I don’t want anyone taking this the wrong way, but I wonder what the Lefty-loons would have us do if something were to have happened to better half of the ObamaBinBiden un-dynamic duo while he was there?!?!? Probably would’ve used it as yet another “convenient” pile on for WITHDRAWEL IN DEFEAT IMMEDIATELY rather than outrage and demands to hunt the folks that would’ve done it down. Full fledged Surrender Doctrine!
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Forever Young 5!
Pomme (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:36PM EST (link)The “They told me if I voted for John McCain….” stuff will not ever get old!
It pleases me, carry on!
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views” William F Buckley Jr.
I am embracing the healing power...
mikefisk (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 3:24PM EST (link)…of the raised middle finger, the more I hear of these sorts of posturings by the Obama administration.
Sadly, at the rate it’s going, I may as well just leave both up on a semi-permanent basis.
“Once within the maw of Leviathan, degree of digestion is irrelevant.” – Michael Fisk
9.25, -4.77
Just make sure they aren't in range to get bitten off -nt-
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 3:58PM EST (link)The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
My precise thought. [NT]
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:06PM EST (link)NT
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My (combined) wish list.
Obama believes the Russians when they
Cargosquid (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 3:25PM EST (link)say this:
“Of course we’ll help you with that Iranian problem…..We’ll get them to put away the nukes. We’ve only invested millions in helping them develop nuclear power….Don’t worry about it. The check is in the mail. And we have a bridge to sell you. I promise not to c…”
You get the idea.
So, Obama called them up like a unfaithful girlfriend and said, “Honey, I think we should start seeing other people. Its not you. Its me…..”
He’s doing this WITHOUT Russian guarantees of sanctions against Iran. He’s HOPING that Russia will CHANGE its mind about helping the US.
Kinda of like an insecure girl putting out just so the quarterback will date her.
Too bad they trusted us. I wonder why we have such a poor reputation among allies……
The US is such a Great Ally
jodetoad Thursday, September 17th at 3:27PM EST (link)It has just been demonstrated that anybody who thinks they can count on the US as an ally is an idiot.
The libs worry about whether the world ‘likes us’. But this provides evidence that the world can’t trust us. Any administration is free to ignore alliances or relationships they don’t care for, so international relationships are only good for maybe 4 years. Maybe.
You mean like Honduras? -nt-
vettepilot (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:32PM EST (link)Actually, jodetoad, it's that Obama wants another part of the world
TNJim (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:44PM EST (link)to trust us, the one rulled by the Chavezs, Castros, Putins, and so on. Traditional allies be damned. Unfortunately, it’s all part of the plan, as AChance pointed out in his latest. See the top of the recommended diaries list for that.
To expand a little on that
TNJim (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:49PM EST (link)In AChance’s article he talks about the shadow government as applied domestically, but I think the same principles are being used to reshape forign policy as well. Chime in, Art, if I am misinterpreting anything here.
Why is anyone surprised? He said he'd disarm us.
ColdWarrior (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 3:27PM EST (link)Thank you.
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But he also said
azred (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 7:26PM EST (link)He’d defend them:
Flashback: Obama Pledges Missile Defense Against Iran In April
RealClearPolitics:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/17/flashback_obama_pledges_missile_defense_against_iran_in_april.html
Again – he lied.
He breaks all promises except those made to the hard left.
ColdWarrior (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 8:55PM EST (link)nt
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Wow, we just threw our most reliable allies under the bus
AKSteveB (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 3:40PM EST (link)at a time when everyone is concentrating on domestic stuff. Gotta hand it to Art, more and more this looks like genuine long planned subversion, rather than just incompetence. I’m sick.
Hell is other people – Sartre
Here, AKSteveB, have another helping:
Achance (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 3:53PM EST (link)http://www.redstate.com/martin_a_knight/2009/09/14/matthew-manweller-democratic-plant/#comment-1397
Sometimes, I really hate to be right. AC
In Vino Veritas
Amen To Everyone Above! NObama Wants The U.S. To Fail! And McCain's Campaign Bears Partial Responsibility!
Ausonius (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 3:56PM EST (link)In Big Brobama’s twisted Orwellian logic dictators bring peace and freedom. Democracy and liberty are slavery: so good-bye Eastern European republics, hello Putin’s KGB kleptocracy!
As I have fumed under other related topics today, when the U.S. fails at home and abroad, then Big Brobama has succeeded.
As bad as everything has been about the Hell-th Care Plan and the Porkulus and the Cap and Tax Plan, those were all domestic things which could be stalled or undone -albeit with great difficulty – in the years ahead. This has told every large and small dictator on the planet that their promises will be swallowed in exchange for our disarmament.
And at least partial responsibility for this should be the albatross hung around John McCain’s neck for his weak and ultimately idiotic campaign last year.
Rush today played tapes of NObama ten years proclaiming his racist socialist propaganda: where was the McCain campaign on that? NObama ABSOLUTELY should have been directly hit about Ayers, Wright, etc etc etc.!!! The YouTube video above about canceling weapons programs ABSOLUTELY should have been used by the McCain campaign against this crypto-Communist pacifist.
His books should have been plumbed for all the anti-American statements, and they should have been broadcast as often as possible.
Instead, most of the McCain ads were pathetic.
And now we and the rest of the world reap the whirlwind of stupidity that swirled around the Republicans connected to those decisions not “to attack Obama personally.”
Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.
Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.
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Ausonius- McCain didn't want to win
Scope (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 7:21PM EST (link)He only wanted to win against Bush in 2000. McCain has been around forever, unfortunately. He has won re-election after re-election after re-election. Hell he’s 100 years old, and, has been in the Senate for most of those years. If he didn’t learn how to run an election campaign after 2000, and, after all those re-election campaigns in Arizona, he is/was fooling us all. He preferred that Obama, a Democrat, take us in the direction that he really desires. He just didn’t want to be the architect of the US demise. Remember, after his release from the Viet Nam prison, he came home, divorced his wife, found a new corporate gazillionare cutie, was a Democrat, but, was advised to become a Republican if he wanted to win the seat in Arizona. From reports, he “almost” switched to the Democrat party after the 2000 election. I wish he would have done his Specter then.
We Have Discussed Whether McCain Wanted To WIn Or Not
Ausonius (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 8:17PM EST (link)under other topics.
You are quite right, and the evidence is there: either consciously or subconsciously, McCain did not want to win.
What is unconscionable are the Republican operatives who supported the losing decisions. They should be marked and never allowed near a campaign again!
Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.
Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.
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Its their own fault
cclive Thursday, September 17th at 4:17PM EST (link)Both Poland and the Czech Republic never had their legislature ratify the agreements and instead decided to wait til after the 08 election. They kept dragging their feet. So no binding formal agreement took place.
Yeah...not like Obama had anything to do with it....
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:23PM EST (link)Seriously…why are you always providing cover for Obama?
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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You fail to see the point.
cclive Thursday, September 17th at 4:37PM EST (link)They had the opportunity under Bush to get this thing solidified and underway and they decided not to. They specifically decide to wait til after the election and run the risk of a new President changing things and thats exactly what they got. I’m not giving any cover to Obama, I’m holding them responsible for their own actions. Period.
Now do you actually have a relevant comment?
My point is that you give cover to Obama...all.the.time.
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:47PM EST (link)Never have you laid any blame on Obama. And now that his direct action had a direct result on allies of the U.S. you refuse to acknowledge it and instead blame the Polish and Czechs.
I will be 100% clear here….this is not the fault of the Polish or the Czechs. For you to automatically blame them is to provide cover for Obama.
You should quit that.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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You have no relevant point still.
cclive Thursday, September 17th at 4:55PM EST (link)“That agreement, along with a Status of Forces Agreement governing the presence of US troops in Poland, must now be ratified by the Polish Parliament. To date those agreements have yet to be debated, with ratification now uncertain before the end of 2008. The Speaker of the Polish Parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski, has commented that a vote would not be rushed and that “it would be worth knowing if the election result in the US would have an influence on the US attitude towards this program”
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/briefings/snia-04378.pdf
“Under President George W. Bush, the White House had pushed to complete negotiations with Poland and the Czech Republic ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election.
Sikorski said Obama had told him some two months ahead of his election victory that he had concerns over the system’s effectiveness and whether it was not directed against Russia, which condemns it as a threat to its security.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSTRE4A464O20081105
Again they get what they deserve for their delay.
So you support Obama's decision to end the program...
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:00PM EST (link)good to know. And I must also assume that you will be fine if they get nuked or invaded again…after all they are just getting what they deserve.
With allies like you who needs enemies.
I made my point clearly, it’s relevancy is that you are claiming to be a republican on a republican site who consistently provides cover for the Obama admins many follies.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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Speaking of relevance
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:04PM EST (link)The fact that the governing morons were busy diddling themselves when they should have been looking after their citizens’ best interests is not relevant to the post.
Obama et al sold out two countries that have been staunch allies. That is the contention Moe made, and nothing you say remotely counters that.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Save your breath to cool your soup, Aaron
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:07PM EST (link)Obama’s backstabbing of Eastern Europe is THEIR fault in this little alternate universe that has become the U.S.
Both cclive and Obama aren’t doing real well keeping undercover.
No, they read the polls better than McCain did,
The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, September 18th at 5:11AM EST (link)and opted to avoid the Major B-slap in favor of only having to deal with the Minor B-slap. The Big 0 would have used the same lame reasoning to pull out of the deal even if it had been approved by them.
Exactly, cclive -- like Otter said to the Dorf...
furious (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:53PM EST (link)You f*cked up, you trusted us.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
Obama betrayed significant (and very vulnerable) allies
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:53PM EST (link)That’s a fact. Fine-point it all you want. I don’t know what point you’re trying to make, other than “screw them”.
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G'bye
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:59PM EST (link)Go elsewhere to shill for Obama’s disgusting collaboration with dictators.
Or go read a book on Molotov-Ribbentrop, I don’t care.
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Great Post
Mike Friesen (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:21PM EST (link)This post would be hilarious if it wasn’t so true AND sad. I’m with you Moe; I can’t decide which is more offensive so I will take them all!
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I predict big losses in Obama's approval rating.
scottbomb (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:27PM EST (link)Absolutely incompetent foreign policy will cause even more losses for the Obamessiah.
Iran sees a wuss in the Oval Office. So does the Taliban. China and Russia snicker.
Israel, brace yourselves. You’re on your own this time. We’ll be praying for you.
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Dictators Incorporated Have Scheduled a Dance
Ausonius (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:48PM EST (link)on NObama’s insipidly arrogant nose.
While it might be nice to contemplate continued losses in polls for him, worse is the mess he has just created by giving a blank check to Iran, Russia, Al-Qaeda.
Accompanying this was the decision NOT to decide anything in Afghanistan yesterday!
What will the MSM do with this story? Parrot the party line: we are now actually SAFER because we are not annoying the Dictator Putin and the Dictator Ahmedinejad.
As I wrote elsewhere, good-bye Taiwan as the Chinese just picked up the OK signal from the Wuss House for a take-over.
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Where's Hillary?
Just_Saying Thursday, September 17th at 4:55PM EST (link)Wouldn’t you think the Secretary of State would have some input — or, at least, have something to say when the US dumps its long-term allies?
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Not when the offended countries don't take her phone calls.
Steph C (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:06PM EST (link)Polish PM Won’t Take Hillary’s 3 AM Phone Call
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Where are all those supposed PUMAs ?!?!?
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 7:06PM EST (link)rolled over faster than a Blue-Pavlov-Dog Democrat
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Mark my words. The blame for this will fall on the military.
suzieQ (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 4:56PM EST (link)Obama will say he was just following the advice of SECDEF Gates and the Joint Chiefs Of Staff. He will say it was their recommendation.
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IJB Thursday, September 17th at 11:54PM EST (link)The best part? Obama is laying all the groundwork for his own downfall. Just like Carter. I can hardly wait…
It's Yalta all over again....
furious (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:00PM EST (link)…bad enough for the Czechs, Poles, and Hungarians, although at least they share borders with civilized nations.
How’d you like to be a Lithuanian, Latvian, or Estonian?
–furious
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"How’d you like to be a Lithuanian, Latvian, or Estonian?"
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 7:16PM EST (link)Pretty soon that will look like a good option.
Obama has officially jumped the Jimmy Carter...
furious (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:03PM EST (link)…shark — at least Jiimmuh boycotted the 1980 Olympics, and made other pointless, futile gestures protesting the Russkies’ Afghan adventure.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
"Polish Americans Are Racists"
Tbone (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 5:12PM EST (link)Just thought I’ld beat the MSM to it.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
I'll take "All of the Above" for $2,000 Alex!
ranthony (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 6:24PM EST (link)And may the DAILY DOUBLE bird lay droppings on Obama’s head.
His stoppage of the Missile Defense Shield,
penguin2 (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 6:25PM EST (link)does not surprise me. No one should be surprised by this move. Remember Obama’s initial blunder last year, when he had an initial wrong and then weak response regarding Russia’s invasion of Georgia?
Whenever he had been pressed on the continuance of the proposed Missile Defense plan, he sounded weak. Before he won the election, he was soft pedaling his so-called support. This has been part of his agenda all along. There is nothing to stop him. I am only angry that he is betraying long-time allies, who have respected and trusted us. America is now betraying that trust.
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Putin to Obama "Tear Down Your Defense Wall" -- Obama's Answer: Okay
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 6:35PM EST (link)given the History of Democrats Surrender Doctrine (Democrats ALWAYS cut/weaken U.S.Defense) what could go wrong?
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"Mr. 0bama, Tear Down the Defense Wall"-Good One -nt
DONTREADONME (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 6:55PM EST (link)Funny
Rusty_S (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 8:02PM EST (link)When I saw the title, I thought you were asking about the place Osama Bin Laden is living…
Odd title
Ben White (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 10:31PM EST (link)Yeah, the title could be better.
I was thinking
Missile cave? Is that what she’s calling it now?
I was a little annoyed at the time. :)
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 11:14PM EST (link)The invasion of Poland anniversary thing just set me off.
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Rusty_S (Diary) Friday, September 18th at 9:21AM EST (link)Hopefully the thought of Osama holed up in his missile defense cave will take the edge off a little. Although I hate to think what the most offensive part of that place must be…
What Better Way to Celebrate an Anniversary.
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 9:26PM EST (link)I cringe to think what he’ll go and do on May Day.
” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis
The most offensive part is GE benefitting
paulincolo (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 9:53PM EST (link)from the most from O’s total lack of integrity and high amount of corruption.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-helps-strengthen-General-Electric-Putin-ties-59644627.html
And now we're also selling Patriot missiles to Turkey
Karina (Diary) Friday, September 18th at 5:07AM EST (link)“In a sign of shifting plans for missile defence, the US last week notified Congress of a potential $7.8bn sale of Patriot missiles to Turkey, which borders Iran.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2b1c62c0-a367-11de-a435-00144feabdc0.html
Well, I guess we can use the money for the new Green Schools Czar. Or the Acorn Defense Fund.
And this is how Obama is keeping America safe? By selling our arms to relatively unstable countries who have shown a tendency to buckle under Russia’s influence? Where will these missiles end up? Fired on our own troops in Afghanistan? Threatened against Greek Cyprus? Unleashed on Georgia, Poland, and the other former Eastern Bloc countries for oil pipeline rights?
Obama's vision is in green, not defense technology
SoFiMil (Diary) Thursday, September 17th at 11:01PM EST (link)Obama always uses the fact that we put a man on the moon as proof that we can do anything in advocating developing green technology as a cheap and effective alternative energy source. He and his fellow liberals, however, have always scoffed at the Ronald Reagan’s vision that we can shoot down an enemy missile, and cut us off from even making the attempt.
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Paging Dr. Freud. Paging Dr. Freud.
The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, September 18th at 5:20AM EST (link)Moe did you notice this bit in your link?
After what he called a “comprehensive assessment of our missile defense program in Europe, the president said he “approved the unanimous recommendations of my secretary of defense and my Joint Chiefs of Staff” to go forward with the new system, which the administration says will be made up of increasingly-capable land- and sea-based missile interceptors, primarily upgraded versions of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) and a range of censors in Europe. [bolding mine, rest of the problems are all in the original]
Shortly after Obama's election,...
Paul_In_Houston Friday, September 18th at 12:31PM EST (link)… I posted this comment on many blogs…
On Election Day, the Ace of Spades website posted a picture of two Iraqi women, with purple-stained fingers showing they had voted in an election.
It was a “Get Out The Vote” message, noting that whatever inconveniences YOU may experience by voting, “These women literally risked their lives to vote“.
My first reaction was, “And THE ONE can hardly wait to sell them out”.
Obama’s rhetoric on Iraq, and comments about Israel, showed a casual willingness to sell out allies when convenient.
A commenter asked, “Who appointed us to be their guardians? Why is it America’s job to make sure they are safe?”
Perhaps we’d rather not have the entire world as a nuclear-armed camp, figuring that the more countries with these things, the more risk that some will eventually be used.
Our alliances with these countries ain’t out of the goodness of our heart, but for our own best interests. Sell one out, and I’ll bet you the others will sure take notice.
The commenter seemed to be saying, “To hell with them; let them take care of themselves!”
Ok! But, they might do exactly that, and we might be less than thrilled with the results.
If countries under threat (Taiwan, South Korea, Japan) think that our word is no longer any good, they’ll almost certainly feel the need for nuclear arms as the only real deterrent to someone like China. And note, those countries ALL have the necessary economic, industrial and technical wherewithal to go nuclear. All they need do is make the decision.
Others, in the Middle East, will want them to deter Iran. How about Saudi Arabia and Egypt? Maybe Libya decides that abandoning their efforts was a mistake. THOSE countries may lack the technology, but they can certainly afford to finance it.
It could just go on and on.
THAT could be a very likely consequence of us deciding to just disengage ourselves from these countries.
We’ve tried, for a long time, to convince others that they didn’t need them, because WE would provide the nuclear umbrella.
When they figure they can’t count on us, the whole thing unravels.
If the commenter gets his wish, and they DO take care of themselves, it could get real interesting for us as well.
As we also reside on the same planet, I think it almost impossible we would remain unaffected.
So, standing up for our allies is not just a nice thing to do; it makes the hardest kind of common sense.
Simply put, we protect others in order to protect ourselves.
Abandoning them, selling them out, would be an unbelievably short-sighted (as in STUPID) thing to do, and would hurt us more in the long run. No one would trust an agreement with us; and why should they, given such a record?
Instead of being worth a damn, our word would only be noise.
And that would be tragic, because WE set its’ value, by our actions.
Sadly, I see nothing in that comment that needs amending.