http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-missile-defense-2572467-nuclear-iran
Friday, September 18, 2009
Mark Steyn: Obama helping Putin restitch Iron Curtain
Scrapping of U.S. missile defense plans hands big victory to Russia’s new czar.
Mark Steyn
Syndicated columnist
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In a sense, the health care debate and the foreign policy debacle are two sides of the same coin: For Britain and other great powers, the decision to build a hugely expensive welfare state at home entailed inevitably a long retreat from responsibilities abroad, with a thousand small betrayals of peripheral allies along the way. A few years ago, the great scholar Bernard Lewis warned, during the debate on withdrawal from Iraq, that America risked being seen as “harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.” In Moscow and Tehran, on the one hand, and Warsaw and Prague, on the other, they’re drawing their own conclusions.
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Don’t you wonder how this one action is going to hurt our ability to be safe in the future?
If I was a foreign country, I wouldn’t trust us.
Would you?
We are clearly untrustworthy. And, we, the dollar, and the world will suffer from our failure.
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