Leftist double speak continues as Obama claims he is actually strengthening US missile defense by dropping the European defense plan put forward by Bush.
His main argument? “Iran is no threat”
What about Russian aggression, particularly against Georgia last year? What about the threats to Ukraine and other former Soviet states? What about Russia’s refusal to help us or Israel with the Iranian threat? Obama is giving Russia the green light to continue what they’ve been doing. This is not good.
I like this quote from Ace:
You can say one thing about President Obama, he is consistent on foreign affairs. Kick our allies in the teeth and kiss our enemies on the ass.
Also, What about the blatant betrayal of Poland and Czech Republic who stuck their neck out and risked political fallout to support a US plan to implement missile defense in the region? Looks like we won’t be working with them anymore. All trust is out the door.
Clueless won’t suffice in describing Obama foreign policy anymore. Dangerous is more like it.
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The Obama administration will scrap the controversial missile defense shield program in Eastern Europe, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN Thursday.
The U.S. has been testing the ability of ground-based interceptor missiles to hit long-range ballistic missiles.
The comment followed similar statements from officials in Poland and the Czech Republic — where key elements of the system were to be located — but was the first confirmation from an American official.
Vice President Joe Biden earlier refused to confirm to CNN that the George W. Bush-era plan was being shelved.
But he did explain the logic of doing so, saying Iran — a key concern for the United States — was not a threat.
“I think we are fully capable and secure dealing with any present or future potential Iranian threat,” he told CNN’s Chris Lawrence in Baghdad, where he is on a brief trip.
“The whole purpose of this exercise we are undertaking is to diminish the prospect of the Iranians destabilizing that region in the world. I am less concerned — much less concerned — about the Iranian potential. They have no potential at this moment, they have no capacity to launch a missile at the United States of America,” he said.
Biden said he is “deeply” involved in the review of the missile defense program.
The Bush administration had cited the perceived nuclear threat from Iran as one of the key reasons it wanted to install the missile shield in eastern Europe.
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