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Yalta ’09 – Unilateralism We Shouldn’t Believe In.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  September 18th, 2009 at 05:32 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

To properly commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Josef Stalin’s invasion of Poland in 1939, US President Barack Obama announced the decision to halt all development of Ballistic Missile Defense in Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe cringed; the Russian’s celebrated and tried not to appear overly smug. The avuncular, cuddly President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, denounced the Holocaust as a lie and predicted the eminent demise of Israel. It was all in a day’s work for America’s foppish dandy of a boy president.

Barack Obama described his new passive air defense plans in much the same way he described his health control plan to a joint session of Congress. It was a shame Congressman Joe Wilson wasn’t on hand to provide accurate and timely analysis. Orwell’s poltergeist blushed as Barack Obama described his new, inexpensive, energy-efficient strategy of doing nothing.

The best way to responsibly advance our security and the security of our allies is to deploy a missile defense system that best responds to the threats that we face and that utilizes technology that is both proven and cost-effective. – Barack Obama (HT: FT.Com)

Poland offered a differing strategic assessment of the Obama Administration’s decision. Polish President Lech Kaczynski feared that Poland was now in “a dangerous gray zone” between Western Europe and Russia. This was more diplomatic than “You Lie!” but nonetheless apropos.

Polish and Czech newspapers offered greater insight regarding how these two American allies really felt.

“Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back,” the Polish tabloid Fakt declared on its front page.

A Czech business daily stated the obvious.

“an ally we rely on has betrayed us, and exchanged us for its own, better relations with Russia, of which we are rightly afraid.”

Russian Dominus et Deus, Vladimir Putin, decided not to gloat over much as he made further demands Barack Obama. His KGB slip showed ever-so-teasingly in this statement of demands from an enfeebled rival.


“I expect that after this correct and brave decision, others will follow, including the complete removal of all restrictions on the transfer of high technology to Russia and activity to widen the membership of the World Trade Organization to (include) Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus,” Putin said.(HT: Reuters)

While Putin at least had the dignity not to gloat (much), the Nut-job President of Iran demonstrated the class and distinction you come to expect from a guy who convenes academic conferences to deny the historical occurrence of the Holocaust. He demonstrated just the sort of behavioral inclinations that made George W. Bush seek missile defense upgrades during an annual anti-Israel rally in Qods, Iran.

“The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim,” he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel “Qods (Jerusalem) Day” rally.

“Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty.”

And what anti-Israel rally would be complete without a prediction of Israel’s doom. The last guy on Earth that anyone would want to see waving around a nuclear launch briefcase maundered on through sadly predictable terrain.

“This regime (Israel) will not last long. Do not tie your fate to it … This regime has no future. Its life has come to an end,”

And against this leafy, green background of irrational hatred from Ahmadinejad and gutless appeasement from Barack Obama, we get the following news. It seems, with missile defense now off the table, the International Atomic Energy Agency can now let the cat wiggle out of the bag. Breitbart bears the bad tidings.

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.

The document says Iran has “sufficient information” to build a bomb. It says Iran is likely to “overcome problems” on developing a delivery system.

So US President Barack Obama has sawed Poland and Czechoslovakia off the periphery of the United States defense perimeter with a speech reminiscent of this one from Dean Acheson. The Russians thank him for his humble compliance – while demanding still much more.

The President of Iran understands well that the US has for all intents and purposes approved of his program to build nuclear weapons. This capitulatory approval was so obvious that the UNIAEA inspectors no longer see any point in even denying that Iran will produce thermonuclear missiles. Wasn’t there some pledge by Candidate Obama that he would rebuild our diplomatic standing in the rest of the world? How would Joe Wilson describe that pledge right about now?

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  • penguin2

    The countries of Eastern Europe must certainly be wondering what agreements are going to be signed, for the world to look the other way while they are left unprotected.

    Ronald Reagan would never have done this.

    • Achance

      between Munich and Dunkirk. Comrade Obama can’t gut our military fast enough. Not that different though from the way the British and French communists interfered with the rearmament programs in those countries between the Molotov-von Ribbentrop Pact and the beginning of Barbarossa. ‘Course, soon as Barbarrossa began, it was a scream of “Second Front Now” from every communist in the West.

  • Achance

    ” … A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately light by the Allied victory. Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies. I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant Russian people and for my wartime comrade, Marshall Stalin. There is deep sympathy and goodwill in Britain — and I doubt not here also — towards the peoples of all the Russias and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffs in establishing lasting friendships. We understand the Russian need to be secure on her western frontiers by the removal of all possibility of German aggression. We welcome Russia to her rightful place among the leading nations of the world. We welcome her flag upon the seas. Above all, we welcome, or should welcome, constant, frequent and growing contacts between the Russian people and our own people on both sides of the Atlantic. It is my duty however, for I am sure you would wish me to state the facts as I see them to you. It is my duty to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe.

    From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone — Greece with its immortal glories — is free to decide its future at an election under British, American and French observation. The Russian-dominated Polish Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place. The Communist parties, which were very small in all these Eastern States of Europe, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far, except in Czechoslovakia, there is no true democracy.”

    The “Iron Curtain” speech, March 1946.
    We’ve been stabbed in the back too!

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      He is so completely transparent. He obviously wishes bad things for any country that worked with George W. Bush. What a petty, small-minded man. He has no clue what responsibilities spring from assumming command.

      • Achance

        For the Donks, Comrade Obama was the anti-Bush, so nothing that Bush did can be acceptable. They won’t even evaluate it; Bush did it, so undo it.

        That same attitude is the fundamental reason for my dislike for and distrust of Sarah Palin. She ran as the un-Republcan and anti-Murkowski and was Hellbent to undo everything we did without the slightest thought for why we did it or whether it was in the State’s interest to change it. That’s the reason I was able to so easily and happily work against her administration; one good turn deserves another!

        • redneck_hippie

          “Wasn?t there some pledge by Candidate Obama that he would rebuild our diplomatic standing in the rest of the world?”

          I have noticed that our PResident’s idea of rebuilding diplomacy is to pander to those nations who are least interested in spreading freedom and most interested in seeing the demise of America. People who believed Obama would raise our standing around the world will discover, if they haven’t figured it out already, that Obama’s friends desire to band together against America. While Obama runs around apologizing and giving away the store, the bad guys are snickering as they plot our downfall.

        • cwilson

          Achance, you summarize Palin’s entire administration as “Murkowski did it, I’m agin it”. And then turn around and state your own position as “Palin did it, I’m agin it”?

          You accuse her of childish politics, and then behave…childishly? What am I missing?

          • Achance

            There’s nothing childish about it. Somebody hires me to do something, I do it. I have my things I won’t do and people I won’t work for, but outside those limits, the only thing I care about is the money. Sarah Palin’s stupidity just made it more fun and profitable. And just factor in one thing; I never ran for office or promised anything to anyone other than being a very effective hired gun.

          • mbecker908

          • Achance

            That pretty much says it all, doncha’ think?

          • cwilson

            But there’s no denying he’s a very smart man, and very knowledgeable about practical politics. Now, the cwilson #1 Rule of American Politics is “Dick Morris is always wrong” — but the trick is in figuring out, for any given issue, exactly HOW and WHY Dick Morris is wrong — or whether his advice is correct even when his reasoning is wrong. I’m thinking I need to put you in a similar category — very smart Have Gun Will Travel, whose public positions need to be carefully calibrated by factoring in a hefty Follow The Money adjustment, (‘Course, Rule #1 only applies to the actual Dick Morris).

          • Achance
  • nessa

    …NATO to provide additional troops to ISAF (Afghanistan) The US didn’t even have to visit Poland, they just sent them. An entire Battalion came and unlike the French, who can only provide support, no combat, the Germans who were afraid to leave their FOBS, Spain who pulled out of the entire war on terror, the ONLY condition the Poles had was…
    …they wanted to work with the Americans. We were glad to have them in RC East, I’m proud to have worked with them. And ashamed that my Country has hung them out to dry, merely because the Anointed One has no spine.
    Only John Stuart Mill is appropriate for this act:
    “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
    And yes, that makes me a racist because I am proud to be one of those men better than Obambi and his “miserable creatures”.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    There are *so* many countries that would like nothing more than to pay America back for betrayals like this. One day, sadly, a few of them will get their opportunity. We will pay in blood for betrayals like this. Mourn the beloved country the day that happens.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    to be anti-American in its structure and rules.