Why Romney and the GOP Love Poland

The real-time policy reasons for the trip are few, but resonant. On Sept. 17, 2009, a month before the Nobel Committee’s announcement, the Obama administration put the kibosh on a planned missile defense shield over Eastern Europe. It was interpreted, there and here, as a sop to Russia. But what a sop! In history, Sept, 17 happened to be the day that the Soviets promised to “take all measures to extricate the Polish people from the unfortunate war into which they were dragged by their unwise leaders” and send tanks over the border. “The idea that we should renounce,” said Charles Krauthammer, “on the 70th anniversary of the Russian invasion of Poland, a security agreement that we had with Poland [because] of Russian objections is scandalously, indescribably amateurish.”

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Posted by RobertButler on Jul 30 2012. Filed under 2012 Presidential Campaign. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry