Thursday, September 17, 2009

Obama Decision Fortifies Iran and Russia



Shameful Obama Decision

We condemn the Obama administration’s decision to end development of the anti-nuclear missile program designed to protect the United States and our European allies from possible attacks from Iran and other points in the Middle East.

Poland stuck its neck out to support the program allowing the construction of radar sites on their territory. Their support of this defense initiative was seen as a highly provocative move by Putin’s thugs in Moscow.

Clearly, Obama’s decision to reverse this program is a bold concession to Putin.

The cruel irony is this decision was made on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.

The Obama decision is a double-edged sword as it shows a failure to stand up to Iran demonstrating to them without equivocation the United States and its western allies will pursue all measures to resist any strategic threat from the megalomaniacs in Tehran. At the same time, it shows a lack of resolve subject to further exploitation as the Russian government moves further toward its old Soviet ways against joining constructively with the west.

Making this all the worse is a revelation from the International Atomic Energy Commission whose research shows Iran currently has the capacity and knowledge needed to produce a bomb.

As one last missing piece of the puzzle, of course, as the Iranian nuclear threat materializes, Russia is prepared to sell the radical Islamic regime their state of the air defense missiles.

The unfortunate decision to curtail a defensive not offensive weapons program shows America’s unwillingness to stand its ground and in so doing capitulate to totalitarianism and terrorism.

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