-By Warner Todd Huston
Mark Kirk may not be on the right side of economics, abortion, the homosexual lobby, and a host of other issues, but he is 100% right on his position that President Obama is wrong with his decision to reverse course on the European missile shield.
On Thursday morning, after Obama’s announcement of the missile shield policy change Kirk came out swinging against the president saying that “History is not kind to leaders who sacrifice our Polish allies.” Kirk went on:
Illinois Republican Representative Mark Kirk called the president’s decision a blow to Poland and an encouragement to Iran.
“Iran, a state sponsor of terrorists, now makes the longest-range missile of the terrorist world,” said Mark Kirk. “The administration’s decision is particularly ironic because Poland just announced it would be sending more troops to serve alongside Americans in Afghanistan. America is going to let Poland down, sending a message of weakness to our Polish allies and the people building Iran’s new missile arsenal.”
Kirk is right on with this. Obama has bent over backwards to appease our enemies in Russia and has opened the door for the proto-Soviet Putin to begin to bully surrounding democratic states without fear of a weak Obama crossing him. Obama has abandoned our Eastern European allies with this horrible decision.
Sadly, it appears that every time a Democrat becomes president, no ally can be sure of American support afterward. Democrats simply can be trusted with neither our foreign policy nor our security.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as NewsBusters.org, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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Worst part of this bungle by Obama is that the land based missiles could have been used as a bargaining chip to get the Russians to curtail their support of Iran behind the scenes. Without Russian support, Iran couldn’t build the Uranium enrichment facilities and hence the nuclear threat would have been dealt with to the point there would be NO NEED for the missile defense in the first place.
Let’s be real here, any missile fired by Iran if it’s not nuclear tipped would place Iran in the situation of being invaded like Iraq. The first missile they fire at any US ally will put them at war with the US. The only point of the missiles are to deliver nukes with their fear value to intimidate and blackmail countries into doing or not doing what Iran wants.
Obama by giving away the bargaining chip now has ensured there will be a NUCLEAR confrontation with Iran. Obama is INCOMPETENT. War with Iran at this point is now inevitable.