Friday, September 18, 2009

No pleasure in being right ....


Poles, Czechs: US missile defense shift a betrayal

WARSAW, Poland – Poles and Czechs voiced deep concern Friday at President Barack Obama's decision to scrap a Bush-era missile defense shield planned for their countries.

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

Polish President Lech Kaczynski said he was concerned that Obama's new strategy leaves Poland in a dangerous "gray zone" between Western Europe and the old Soviet sphere.

Recent events in the region have rattled nerves throughout central and eastern Europe, a region controlled by Moscow during the Cold War, including the war last summer between Russia and Georgia and ongoing efforts by Russia to regain influence in Ukraine. A Russian cutoff of gas to Ukraine last winter left many Europeans without heat.

The Bush administration's plan would have been "a major step in preventing various disturbing trends in our region of the world"

Iranian president raises stakes against Israel

TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.

"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."


EPA SAID YESTERDAY:

"disastrous day for america.

Not for missile defense, and what THAT means, but for the message sent about this govt and the people who elect it."




JIMMY CARTER ON CRACK ....

“America is harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.” : Bernard Lewis

2 comments:

Total said...

Overriding Western objections, a 150-nation nuclear conference on Friday passed a resolution directly criticizing Israel and its atomic program for the first time in 18 years. Iran hailed the vote as a "glorious moment."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090918/ap_on_re_eu/un_nuclear_conference

Thank God for the 'Samson Option'. It's a very useful Trump Card to have in a world that thinks you should all die.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_option

Christine said...

I believe Obama's lack of experience is showing. He seems to think he can trust Russia to help. Russia will not do anything to break the very useful relationship they have with Iran.

Also, an interesting post for you to read. Not sure whether to agree with everything he said.

http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=29795