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First Obama visited Russia and displayed craven weakness before his KGB counterparts in the Kremlin. He barely even paid lip service to American values, crushing the spirits of Russia's democracy movement leaders, and his unilateral reversal of the Bush missile defense plan for Eastern Europe led only to more posturing and aggression by Russia against its neighbors and demands for more concessions from Obama.
And now, things have gotten even worse.
Obama has given the cold shoulder to Nicholas Sarkozy of France, apparently believing him to be part of the conservative rabble who are beneath his dignity to treat seriously. Panicked and offended at his loss of influence with the USA, Sarkozy has fallen back on the predictable French model: Play the Russia card.
Specifically, Sarkozy has agreed to sell Russia not one but four dangerous "Mistral" class battleships. Russia has only one purpose in mind for these vessels: It wants to use them to seal off the nation of Georgia from the sea, thereby significantly enhancing its ability to browbeat the tiny country back into the Russian "sphere of influence."
... Obama is apparently willing to sacrifice American values and his own principles on the altar of his fanciful notion that if he makes enough unilateral concessions to Russia and utters enough amorous phrases, he will transfer Russia's KGB government from pathological haters of America into a band of allies ... Obama must have been surprised, then, to see Russia announce that it would press forward with its plan to sell S-300 air defense missiles to Iran...
But there is no sign of any change in Obama's policy. Worse, there is little sign from Republican quarters that conservatives are willing to step up and challenge Obama's actions...
One would think that the lesson of Chamberlain has stuck by now: Weakness begets only defeat. Unilateral concessions beget only demands for more of the same....
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