Obama scrapping missile shield for Czech, Poland

[justjohn]

;D



Obama scrapping missile shield for Czech, Poland


PRAGUE – The Czech prime minister says President Barack Obama has told him that the U.S. is abandoning plans to put a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland.

Czech Premier Jan Fischer told reporters in Prague on Thursday that Obama phoned him to say that Washington has decided to scrap the plan that had deeply angered Russia.

Fischer says Obama confirmed that Washington no longer intends to put 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic.

The Bush administration had said the missile shield was a strategic way to counter a threat from Iran or another rogue state in the Middle East. But Russia was deeply angered by the prospect of having U.S. interceptor rockets in countries so close to its territory.

[Nictoshek]

Its nice to know that this current administration has the 'best and the brightest' working for them.

In arranging a post-midnight call by Mr. Obama and quickly dispatching a top State Department official to Europe, the administration was scrambling to notify and assure the European allies as word of its decision was already leaking out in Washington. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the administration would jettison the Bush architecture. But it made for unfortunate timing, as Thursday is the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, a date fraught with sensitivity for Poles who viewed the Bush missile defense system as a political security blanket against Russia. Poland, along with many other countries in the former Soviet sphere, worry that Mr. Obama is less willing to stand up to Russia.

www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/world/europe/18shield.html?hp

[Eric]

Excellent news!

[Pawian]

Sept 17, 2009 3:38:06 GMT -7 @justjohn said:

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PRAGUE – The Czech prime minister says President Barack Obama has told him that the U.S. is abandoning plans to put a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland.

Good. We don`t need any concrete junk on our virgin rural soil. Others tried and that`s what has been left after them:

[Nictoshek]

The way and manner this US policy reversal was hastily disclosed to the Poles in the middle of the night, has to remind you of street hookers and prostitutes doing their business in similar hours. What a DISGRACE !