In an op-ed in today’s Investors Business Daily, they raise the question if the Obama Administration/United States willing to negotiate away missile defense sites in Eastern Europe for some “vague” promise from Russia?
Alliances: The U.S. has expressed a willingness to barter away missile
defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. Now the Polish foreign
minister says he hopes his country doesn’t regret trusting the United
States.The Brussels Forum is a privately organized high-level meeting of the most influential North American and European political, corporate and
intellectual leaders to address pressing challenges currently facing both sides of the Atlantic.One of the pressing issues discussed at this year’s conference was whether
the U.S. is serious about bartering away plans for missile defense sites in
Poland and the Czech Republic in exchange for vague Russian promises of
using its influence on Iran regarding its move toward developing nuclear
warheads to put on its long-range missiles.
Our allies are concerned, and given our history, for good reason. This could have negative long term implications.
The Poles and the Czechs, who have known true freedom for only a short time after enduring both Nazi and Communist oppression, have experienced the consequences of diplomatic betrayal – first at Munich and later at Yalta.
The “politics of now” is a dangerous way to conduct foreign policy…
Unilaterally scrapping European missile defense could shatter the NATO
alliance as we retreat to a Fortress America behind our own ground-based
interceptors and Aegis-equipped missile defense destroyers and cruisers.The basis of NATO’s purpose and existence – collective security – would be shredded as we showed a willingness to sacrifice allies for diplomatic
convenience. Either we all hang together or we all hang separately.
Here is a good article worth reading and considering as we contemplate the safety of the United States long term.
