Well, all the proof the wingnuts need that Obama is a Commie/Islamofascist appeaser can be found in this New York Times story:
WASHINGTON — President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday.
The letter to President Dmitri A. Medvedev was hand-delivered in Moscow by top administration officials three weeks ago. It said the United States would not need to proceed with the interceptor system, which has been vehemently opposed by Russia since it was proposed by the Bush administration, if Iran halted any efforts to build nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.
It may take them a while to get around to it, since they seem obsessed with the Steele/Limbaugh brouhaha, the Glorious Tea Party Rebellion of 2009, and blaming The Fall of the House of Wall Street on Obama, but rest assured, sooner rather than later we will hear them screaming about Obama’s secret deal with Russia and Iran to hand over our “freedums” to the forces of evil on a silver platter. Fortunately, having had 2 small children before, I know how to suffer the whining of narcissistic cry babies. However, this time I must regrettably refuse to change their diapers.
Ps. This is actually a smart idea by Obama. The Russians don’t really want a nuclear armed Iran with missiles on their border, but they’ve been using their non-cooperation during the Bush years as leverage to make Bush abandon his plan to put a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, a part of the world they consider within their sphere of influence. Since a workable missile defense system that could knock out even 75% of the traditional ballistic missiles fired at it is light years, and billions upon billions of dollars, away (and could easily be defeated by other delivery options such as stealth cruise missiles or terrorist infiltration of a nuclear device), this isn’t much of a giveaway to get America and Russia back on the same page vis-a-vis Iran.
