September 21, 2009
Exclusive: Quote of the Day – September 21, 2009
FSM: Quote of the Day
"Was it only April? There was President Obama, speaking (as is his wont) in Prague, about Iran's nuclear program and ballistic missile capability, and saluting America's plucky allies:
'The Czech Republic and Poland have been courageous in agreeing to host a defense against these missiles,' he declared. 'As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defense system that is cost-effective and proven.' On Thursday, the administration scrapped its missile defense plans for Eastern Europe. The 'courageous' Czechs and Poles will have to take their chances.
Did the 'threat from Iran' go away? Not so's you'd notice."
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"A few years ago, the great scholar Bernard Lewis warned, during the debate on withdrawal from Iraq, that America risked being seen as 'harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.'
In Moscow and Tehran, on the one hand, and Warsaw and Prague, on the other, they're drawing their own conclusions."
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