Don't count on the USA

I think I know why the world, according to the Left, doesn't like us. And it really comes as no surprise, and if fact, was illustrated once again today.

The United States cannot be trusted to fulfill its promises. Time and time again, our leaders promise protection to other countries and peoples in exchange for something, and every time we have what we want, we walk away and turn our backs.

It happened after the first Gulf War. We asked the people of Iraq to stand up to Saddam, and we would stand with them. Then we walked away leaving Saddam in power, and he then tortured and killed everyone that sided with the US.

It happened in Viet Nam, we we left the people who helped us, to be massacred by Pol Pot. What is 3 million dead Vietnamese to our politicians?

And it is happening again today.

President Bush, for all his faults (and there were many) understood that we have to stand up to Russia. His missile defense system for Europe was most likely less about the Iranian threat and more about the Russian one. The countries that were formerly under the old Soviet rule have a deep and real fear or being annexed back into the Russian Empire.

The missile defense system was more like a line in the sand. Especially after the invasion of Georgia, and the Russian Military flexing its muscles again these past two years. Putin wants to be a world force.

President Obama, in his Utopian word of feel good international relations, doesn't seem to understand the possible repercussions of todays actions. For one, the countries we said we would protect, are now terrified. Secondly, Russia now knows we will back down, and nations such as Poland and the Czech Republic will not be protected by the US.

When the Czechs thought the missiles were coming, they agreed to have a US radar station built in their territory. Once the Russians found we have decided not to deploy the missiles, they cut the gas line to the Czechs. Sort of like putting a naughty child in a time out.

Russia knows, and so do these countries, that they are vulnerable. Putin's plan is to restore the Soviet Union to its glory days, and rebuild the empire. And now he knows he has won the chess game with the US, and we won't stand in his way.

And it also sends another clear message to the world that the USA will not live up to its promises.

Not to mention, hours after the announcement of the missile defense plan was scraped, it was announced that Iran probably has the capability to build nuclear bombs now, and are working on finishing the long range missiles to deliver them.

Odd little coincidence there.