White House to Scrap Bush’s Approach to Missile Shield - NYTimes.com
“The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday that it will scrap former President George W. Bush’s planned missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic and instead deploy a reconfigured system aimed more at intercepting shorter-range Iranian missiles, according to people familiar with the plans.”
“But it made for unfortunate timing, coming on 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.”
With this change in strategy, it appears that Obama is trying to please the Russians while betraying our allies.
Source: The New York Times
