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U.S. doesn’t give up AMD plans
Published: 28 August, 2009, 06:39
TAGS: Arms, Military, Europe, USA
The U.S. administration has denied allegations that they might cancel the installation of an anti-missile defense shield in Poland. It says the project is still underway, though no final decision has yet been made.
For decades Poland played host to Soviet troops and, most recently, seemed almost certain to welcome U.S. servicemen onto its soil. But that may no longer be written in the stars.
The Polish daily newspaper Tribuna reports the Obama administration is virtually certain to abandon plans for placing elements of a U.S missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The AMD agreement seemed to be a done deal, one of the final breakthroughs of the Bush administration. According to the agreement, Poland was to host ten interceptor missiles to guard against the so-called Iranian threat – a prospect that prompted vocal opposition from Russia, whose western-most frontier was about 115 miles from the proposed installation.
However, the Obama administration took a time-out to revise the project. Meanwhile, its opposition continued to grow. The latest polls show that about 60 per cent of the Polish population is against the missile shield.
Maciej Wieczorkowski is one of the anti-shield activists. His group, the Initiative Against War, was originally formed in early 2004 to protest against the U.S. war in Iraq. And while their rallies couldn’t stop U.S. troops, he hopes they won’t become a fixture in Poland.
“Our security should be based on good relations with our neighbors. It cannot be exported from across the ocean,” Maciej says.
Adam Rotfeld is from the other side of the debate. The former foreign minister of Poland, he says he was always in favor of the shield but now he feels Poland has been left out.
“Americans have their right to take any decision they want. But if they started their talks with these countries a few years ago, these countries should be the first to discuss any cancellation plans,” Rotfeld believes.
With or without the U.S. shield, many believe Polish security will remain uncompromised, but feelings in Warsaw have definitely been hurt.
28.08.2009, 01:38
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The Pentagon/CIA campaign to "Perish Troika" will not stop until the Peoples' Voice is heard. The most deveoped form of State Monopoly Capitalism - modern-day oligarchic Imperialism led by USA-based "Big Business" dynasties heeded the voice of the people against its invasion of Vietnam and IndoChina to end that War - involving 500,000 foot soldiers and more bombs and other munitions than were dropped in both World Wars - was to escalate it to the point that Da Nang and its surrounding province had more tonnage of bombs dropped on to it than were utilised by all sides during World War II during a 3 months period. Yet the Pentagon/CIA lost. Why? The Voice of the Peoples of the World commanded the day. What now? What's To Be Done? Where To Begin? It seems that there is a profound crisis in the economy of the USA overall due to a dearth of ore supplies from the States of Latin America and Africa and Australia. Who needs to be heard in the isuues of the AMD and its significance to European peoples? The whole Peoples' Voice - of course - I hear being said!! ///snowyone.
I don't understand why we need this shield. I do not mean to be bombastic or frightening, but I think Iran knows if it launches a nuclear missile at the US, Israel, or Europe, it will be repaid in kind, as they would do if we attacked them first and they had nuclear weapons. That alone should be enough of a deterrent, don't you think?
Poland did have a horror past but this alone is not excuse to look for Usa (Anglo-Saxon divide and rule policy of Europe hiden in NATO) for security-wich have to be find in accord with all Europe(Russia is 40% Europe to) !I hope you did not forgot that(i think Margaret Tacher) UK and USA(their govenment ) been in Moskow for 4 days trying to stop Russia-Gorbatchov to put down a wall ! Russia do not represent a threat to Poland-its opposite-Poland policy today is first threath to them and Europe-Russia security.Europe security have to be find without Usa(England is their trojan horse) -they doing their best to prevent all Europe to united (with Russia to)for their own goal....Usa provoke-Balkans and Georgia-war so we can commit suisuide...as before !Poland shall and must do much better than that! Usa abuse you(Baltic,Ukraine to)...Forget about ABM-it serve ONLY ANGLO-SAXON POLICY...it is not in your intrest to be a nuclear target or in worse case to be wipe out without warning! You can and I hope you will do better than that in the future! Thanke you...