{"id":14436,"date":"2009-09-17T06:45:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T11:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14436"},"modified":"2009-09-17T06:45:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T11:45:53","slug":"obama-scraps-missile-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14436","title":{"rendered":"Obama scraps missile defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to develop a foreign policy when your only guide is to do the exact opposite of your predecessor. That seems to be the Obama Administration&#8217;s plan. Czech and Polish governments have announced that the Obama Administration told them that he&#8217;s abandoning the Bush missile defense installations in those countries to coddle the Russians according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/17\/AR2009091700639.html?hpid=topnews\">Washington Post\/AP<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the plan, which had been proposed by the Bush administration to defend the United States and its European allies against a possible missile attack from Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East, 10 interceptor rockets were to have been stationed in Poland and a radar system based in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>But Russia was livid over the prospect of having U.S. interceptor rockets in countries so close to its territory, and the Obama administration has sought to improve strained ties with the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>A top Russian lawmaker praised the move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. president&#8217;s decision is a well-thought and systematic one,&#8221; said Konstantin Kosachev, head of the foreign affairs committee in the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. &#8220;It reflects understanding that any security measure can&#8217;t be built entirely on the basis of one nation.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A rational person has to wonder why the Russians are so concerned about a DEFENSE system. Of course, it was defense systems that broke the Soviet Union in the first place, wasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to develop a foreign policy when your only guide is to do the exact &hellip; <a title=\"Obama scraps missile defense\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14436\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama scraps missile defense<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}