Obama cancels missile shield: Curious timing?
Today's Financial News - Posted September 17, 2009
The Obama Administration canceled the Eastern European missile defense system on a peculiar anniversary. A portent of other betrayals yet to come?
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore, MD — TFN: When Hillary Clinton handed her Russian colleagues a “reset” button earlier this year, the thought popping into my mind was just how far the Obama Administration wanted to reset Russian-American relationships.
Because in my memory, those hadn’t been all that great over the past half-century.
Today we got the answer. Apparently, the target time is either 1939… or 1944.
On the 70th anniversary of the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland — which occurred sixteen days after the beginning of Hitler’s attack on Poland — the Obama Administration announced it planned to scrap the missile defense system that was to be set up in the Czech Republic and in Poland.
Ostensibly, this shield was aimed at screening Europe against long-range missiles from rogue states like Iran. In reality, they were a symbolic commitment of the United States to the independence and sovereignty of Poland and other eastern European states — who are distrustful against the increasingly aggressive posturing of neighboring Russia.
Eastern Europeans have been sold out to the Russians by U.S. Democrats before — when FDR deemed it advantageous to cede them to the tender mercies of his ally Josef Stalin, costing millions of lives over the subsequent half-century.
Of course, you will argue that modern Russia isn’t the Soviet Union and Putin isn’t Stalin.
But I find the timing of the release too symbolic to be purely coincidental.
What’s next, I wonder: Maybe Obama will cut off Israel from U.S. military support… on the anniversary of Kristallnacht!
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