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...Iranian test has raised alarm bells in the West and renewed interest in the Bush administration’s harebrained scheme for a European missile defense program in Poland and the Czech Republic. But, before we commit to such a program, the Obama administration should remember the most important lesson of the Bush years: the importance of using diplomacy first. Before committing to the expensive and unproven missile shield in Central Europe, the United States should exhaust all of its remaining diplomatic options...
...proposed missile shield will not only encourage overly militaristic behavior in the Pentagon, but it will also seriously damage our already-tenuous relationship with the Russian Federation. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has had a rocky relationship with its former Warsaw Pact allies, especially Poland. Moreover, Moscow has viewed the continued expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance into Central and Eastern Europe as evidence of growing American hegemony...
...move also threatens our new alliances with Poland and the Czech Republic, two of our strongest backers in the NATO organization. Moreover, the majority of Poles and Czechs oppose the plan, which would needlessly put them at risk of armed conflict with Russia. Last year, President Medvedev announced that Russia would be relocating several SS-26 “Iskander” missiles to Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia’s small exclave of territory on the Baltic coast that borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania. While these plans have been temporarily put on hold, the Russian threat should be taken...
...Poland's zloty has dropped 29% against the euro in the past six months, the Hungarian forint by 20%, the Romanian Ieu 17% and the Czech koruna 12%. Latvia has now followed Romania in seeing its government bonds labeled as junk by Standard & Poor's rating agency. (Its government was forced to quit two weeks ago). Once lauded as darlings of global capitalism, these countries now warn of social and political unrest if their economies are allowed to collapse. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Brazilian python. General Manager Juliana Lyman offered a tasting of Savenor’s gourmet products: maple smoked salmon with crème fraiche on water wheel crackers, goat cheese on crusty baguette slices, and freshly seared prime rare strip steak—all washed down with Pellegrino and Poland Spring mandarin orange sparkling water. “This isn’t what they serve in your cafeteria,” laughed Lyman. The final stop on the tour was nearby café The Biscuit, where students sampled sandwiches, pastries, coffees, and teas—all on the FLP?...