"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."
Emphasis mine. As it happens, there hasn't been a crisis per se, although there have been some missed opportunities (Iran) and decisions to back the wrong horse (Honduras). But Biden was on to something, because yesterday's decision to stick a shiv in the back of Poland and our other eastern European allies by canceling a missile defense system for their countries is frankly bizarre.
I don't see what we get from this. From the linked article:
President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a U.S. missile defense system for eastern Europe won praise from Russian leaders. What it didn’t win was a sign that they will cooperate to thwart Iran’s nuclear program.
For their part, Obama and his minions insist it doesn't have anything to do with Russia, even though Russia benefits directly:
Obama stressed that his reversal of President George W. Bush’s plan to place radar and missile interceptors in the Czech Republic and Poland reflects a new assessment of Iran’s missile capabilities, not a response to Russian opposition.
“This is not about Russia,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said yesterday.
Do you believe that? I sure the hell don't. What's worse, the timing was despicable, as Mitch Berg points out:
Not only did Obama sell America’s allies in Eastern Europe down the river, he did it on the seventieth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, which completed the final parting-out of Poland’s fledgling democracy in 1939.
And I also have to agree with Mitch's conclusion:
There are many areas where I’m willing to chalk Obama’s actions up to stupidity, and the invincible ignorance that follows whenever you put a bunch of Ivy Leaguers in the same place.
But I’m sorry - there was no way in hell Obama and his staff didn’t know the significance of 9/17 in Poland. No f****ng way.
So we go back to Joe Biden's statement. No, Mr. Vice President, it's not apparent that you're right. Not at all. And if you wonder why, consider this.
More on this last link later.
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