02/04/2010 04:32:50 PM EST
Get your missiles out of my back yard!
posted by eworr
The US is, once again, pushing a "missile defense shield" on eastern Europe - ostensibly to protect Europe from missile attacks from Iran. After the people of the Czech Republic told their own government that they would not accept the shield being located in their country, the US has, through the usual combination of bribing and cajoling, managed to get Romania and Poland to sign on to threatening Russia by planting a whole bunch of US missiles on their doorstep.
Stop already! Take your missiles out of Europe (my neighborhood) and stop deliberately antagonizing Russia (one of my gas suppliers). The ridiculous excuse for this exercise is that the missile shield will protect Europe against missile attacks from "rogue states" such as Iran and, well, Iran. Are you kidding?
If the US wants to prevent Iran from shooting off missiles, why doesn't it plant its weapons in Turkey or Israel? Could someone please tell Obama to get his military hardware the fuck out of my region. If anyone was wondering why the rest of the world was so interested in the US presidential elections and why we were all so pleased that Obama and not McCain was elected, this is one of the explanations. It is hugely important to us (Europe, the rest of the world) what goes on in the US and who the clown at the levers is. We thought and hoped that Obama would be less dangerously aggressive than McCain, but, in terms of foreign policy, it's pretty much same-old same old. The US is like a (very big) mean drunk looking for someone to hit. It's at a 10 and it needs to be at a 2! Come on, now, stop causing trouble wherever you go and take your guns and bombs the fuck away from where I have to live. And if, you're going to do it anyway (which you are), please, please, please don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own protection. Enough of the bullshit already! If you weren't staggering about with a baseball bat in your hand (to go back to the drunk metaphor), I wouldn't need protection.
Cenk, how about suggesting that Obama move his missile shield to Turkey or, alternatively, that he stop threatening Russia and putting all of us Europeans in danger? How about it, huh?