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This is smart diplomacy? This is a debacle. The Russians dismissed it contemptuously.
Look, if we could get the Iranian nuclear program stopped with Russian's helping us in return for selling out the Poles and the Czechs on missile defense, I'm enough of a cynic and a realist to say we would do it the same way that Kissinger agreed to delegitimize and de-recognize Taiwan in return for a large strategic opening with China.
But Kissinger had it done. He had it wired. What happened here is it was leaked. The Russians have dismissed it. We end up being humiliated. We look weak in front of the Iranians, and we have left the Poles and Czechs out to dry in return for nothing.
The Czechs and the Poles went out on a limb, exposed themselves to Russian pressure, and we have shown that Eastern Europe is not as sovereign as it appears if the Russian influence is there, and we will acquiesce in what they consider their own sphere of influence.
This administration has prided itself, flattered itself on deploying smart diplomacy. "Smart diplomacy" is a meaningless idea, but if it has any meaning at all, it is not ever doing something as humiliating, amateurish, and stupid as this.
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Krauthammer's Take - NRO Staff - The Corner on National Review Online
Well, hey, you know what? With all his foreign policy experience, his 143 days in the US Senate.... his
Excellent Tour with Katie, and Charlie and Brian...
Media Stars Will Accompany Obama Overseas - NYTimes.com Oh, nevermind.
Historic. Did they accompany anyone else, oh... I don't know, say... John McCain overseas? The media Stars are... what's the word?
Bush, Obama. Camp Lejeune. Marines.
Huh.