http://bit.ly/VkUz7 - - - Iran poses no threat to the United States, Russia said Tuesday, rebuffing a key argument of President Barack Obama on whether to go ahead with a European missile shield bitterly opposed by Moscow.
Former president George W. Bush had infuriated Russia by striking a deal to install 10 missile interceptors in Poland and related radar stations in the Czech Republic, saying they were needed to counter "rogue states" such as Iran. The Obama administration says it is reviewing the shield project, studying whether it is militarily justified and cost effective. But Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, said that the Iran threat was a myth. "I don't see any threat to the United States coming from Iran anytime soon," Kislyak told a conference of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. - - - First of all, it's news to me that Obama now believes they are a threat and supports the missile shield project. I recall him mocking the idea that Iran or North Korea are threats to the US during the campaign, and he's already signaled the end of missile defense and a dramatic cutting back of US defense systems generally. Secondly, I suppose a defenseless Georgia is a grave threat to Russia, but a nuclear armed Iran with intentions of genocide is no big deal to anybody, least of all their Russian suppliers. Putin is going to play Medvedev's New Comrade for the naïve and dangerous idiot that he is. Tyrants around the world, even in Cuba, have a friend in Obama, and they know it: http://bit.ly/ZwNR Sigh. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
