Reports are that the Obama administration is abandoning the Bush administration’s effort to place interceptors in Poland and an advanced radar in the Czech Republic to defend NATO from Iranian ballistic missile attack. This is a huge mistake. Warsaw and Prague are key NATO allies who have gone out on a limb for the alliance and the United States.
Obama is now abandoning them.
This is a disaster for U.S. credibility and the coherence of the alliance. The Russians are happy. The Iranians are pleased.
The peoples of Central and Eastern Europe are terrified of being abandoned by their ally, the United States. They would be right to ask: Is this what we get for trying to help the United States and NATO?
Those states have been through this before. And what seems like a small matter from the standpoint of Washington, is critically important to them. They have been abandoned by allies before with disastrous results.
They should be warned, with Obama in power, the Russians have a veto on U.S. policy. Efforts to make the NATO alliance stronger will be defeated by Barack Hussein Obama, the appeaser-in-chief.
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