Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (514546)	9/19/2009 2:31:38 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1578133

"How would you feel if Russia came over here and arbitrarily put missles (even defensive weapons) in Cuba, Mexico or Venezuela? You would be up in arms about it, right?" defensive weapons ? no problem. "It was stupid of Bush and Cheney to plan to put missles right on Russia's boarder-gheeesh-lol! Did they forget about the Cuban missle crises?" maybe you are the stupid one, not Bush and Cheney, those were OFFENSIVE missile in Cuba, remember ?????

To: koan who wrote (514546)	9/19/2009 2:45:37 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578133

Let Europe handle Iran. Iran has no missles that can reach us and Iran is muhc more of a thrreat to Europe. Why are we spnding our money. Their GDP is larger than ours. Yeah, this is the typical liberal response -- you can see CJ's posts to me from a day or two ago. But the reality is that the threat isn't to Europe, it is to us. When the Bush administration made the commitments in the first place it was about putting an infrastructure in place that served to protect the US as much as Europe. You have to think this stuff out years in advance. This was one of many incompetent foreign policy moves Obama has made. It was a blunder not only because of the decision itself, but because we got no meaningful concession from Russia in the process (today's news notwithstanding -- that is a big fat nothing). At a minimum he should have received hard, public commitments to stand up against Iranian aggression. Nothing. It was incompetent in every respect.