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HOW SERIOUS IS THE WORLD IN STOPPING AN IRANIAN BOMB?
Israel unilaterally will deal with Iran regardless of what the United States and the rest of the West does. Why was a dime dropped on Iran now? It is quite likely there are two clocks ticking, and the one in Tel Aviv is closer to midnight than the one in Teheran. It also is likely Washington has been informed it has a disappearing window in which to act. So keep those cars tanked up, boys and girls.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 26.09.2009 @ 10:47
The day someone on the Left gets crazy enough to think Keith Olbermann matters to their side, I'll get worried about what Glen Beck means to ours. In the meantime, I will watch paint peel. It's about as relevant to conservatism.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 22.09.2009 @ 21:22
THE GOOD AND THE BAD OF OBAMA'S EURO-MISSILE DEFENSE PLAN
funny man: not worth the time. The fact you Googled "Caucasus" and responded marginalized you.
Steve: Pretty close. The American Left is fairly well gobsmacked today. And if you think about it, why not? The light flashes green but you are dressed in camo. Blaze orange is so close to red, isn't it?
Comment Posted By obamathered On 19.09.2009 @ 00:25
My apologis to busboy.
As for you, you could have been born in a library but you didn't pick up much.
I won't even start.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 18.09.2009 @ 19:31
busboy: maybe if you read history a bit more and the DailyKos a little less, you would be less inclined to spit out partisan hackery. The Russians have had their way with the Poles since the time of Catherine. They have received the signal now from the Obama Administration that the United States will not interfere if they revert to their historical inclinations. The Obama Administration doesn't need any help from me or anyone else for that matter to look bad. The note has been delivered from POTUS to Warsaw: drop dead.
As for Georgia, yeah, no doubt the Neo-Cons were responsible. My God dem dam Jews always cauz truble!
There were no neo-cons prior to the 1950s.
You display such a profound ignorance on this subject you aren't worth the time but you do show enough grasp on others that I did reply out of previous respect.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 18.09.2009 @ 19:08
funny man: Look at a map, please. Poland isn't the Ukraine. No one is itching for a fight with the Russians. But everyone, including you, should hope they leave Poland alone. What happened with the missile shield is for all intents and purposes a signal to Russia to have its way with Poland, again. And you know what? They will.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 18.09.2009 @ 17:28
Bill Arnold:
"As to peoples’ comments that (paraphrased) “the point of the ‘missile shield’ in Poland/Czech Republic was to piss off the Russians”, well, yes, duh. This was GWBush-style diplomacy. But exactly *why* do people want bad relations with the Russians?"
Are you deliberately obtuse, a partisan hack or what? This isn't to "piss off the Russians." This largely symbolic missile shield was meant to reassure our allies. Despite all his failings, even Bush would not have fucked up this badly, and he, too, tried to play footsie with Putin. We have scared the hell out of some of our best allies and got...well, exposed as weak. In the meantime, East Europe knows it has or soon will be thrown to the wolves by another ineffectual, feckless president.
It has been noted in Britain that Secretary of State Clinton was cut out of the loop on this one. My guess is Secretary Clinton already has thought, to paraphrase the great Mae West, "who do I have to fuck to get out of this Administration?" She will leave this Administration rather noisily, in all likelihood. For all her failings, like Bush she would not have made this huge of a mistake.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 18.09.2009 @ 16:01
Sorry to add, but since you posed a serious question I need to make one more point. Compared to most Soviet dictators, in particular Andropov, Putin is a relative dove. The message our troop presence in West Germany sent, as vulnerable as it was, was enough to deter even Andropov.
We have received the responses from Prague and Warsaw. Again, they have seen this for what it is.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 18.09.2009 @ 13:34
Rick:
"Period?" Not even close.
I simply will note that the mere presence of American troops in Western Germany, which military experts estimated would have been over-run in a matter of days by the Red Army, were put there to send a
"message." The same applies to our troops on the DMZ today. The message isn't a subtle one, now is it?The message Obama sent was one of weakness. The Czechs and Poles wouldn't have given a good goddamned unless they realized they are viewed as expendable--which, frankly, they would be fools not to apprehend. I not only won't stop thinking in terms of messages, I recommend you start to do so. No, a radar and 10 interceptors wouldn't have done a damned thing. But the message was their presence meant we would commit the required force if Poland were invaded. This is too obvious almost to write.
There is no way to disentangle "message" from "security" in this case. You would be well advised to think about whether or not "message" vs. "security" is a distinction without a difference. It certainly was or is the case in Seoul and Bonn.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 18.09.2009 @ 13:27
My God you can miss the obvious. The point of the "missile shield" wasn't the stated "reason," i.e., to deter Iran. It was to send a message to Putin and his puppet that the Poles and Czechs would not be sacrificed like the Georgians.
Well, that message has been signed, sealed and delivered. If I were a Czech or Pole, I would be terrified of the current occupant of the White House. Both have been abandoned by the United States at various times (1968 and 1939), so it is little wonder they distrust us, particularly when this nation's leader is a left-wing appeaser.
The "message" would not have improved their security one iota. To make the argument that Polish or Czech security is worse today is incorrect.Putin doesn't care about "messages." Obama did himself no favors with Putin by this action but what makes you think Putin would have been impressed if we had gone ahead and deployed the interceptors. Stop thinking "message" and think "security." A radar and 10 interceptors would not have protected Poland against a Russian missile threat. Period.
ed.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 18.09.2009 @ 11:09
