{"id":5436,"date":"2009-09-18T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2009-09-18T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:00:40","slug":"raw-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5436","title":{"rendered":"Raw Nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of years of vassaldom to the Russians, Germans and Austro-Hungarians.<\/p>\n

6-7 years under the Nazi jackboot, with millions – millions – <\/em>dead as they served as a battlefield, a killing field, a death factory, and finally a battlefield again.<\/p>\n

Two generations as slaves of the Soviets.<\/p>\n

Just saying, all you Obama supporters – P Obama isn’t bringing Eastern Europe the change they were hoping for<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Poles and Czechs voiced deep concern Friday at President Barack Obama’s decision<\/span> to scrap a Bush-era missile defense shield planned for their countries.<\/p>\n

“Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia<\/span> and stabbed us in the back,” the Polish tabloid Fakt declared on its front page.<\/p>\n

Polish President Lech Kaczynski<\/span> said he was concerned that Obama’s new strategy leaves Poland<\/span> in a dangerous “gray zone” between Western Europe<\/span> and the old Soviet sphere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the Poles’ experiences with being in “gray zones” – like when the Brits and French crossed their fingers behind their backs when promising to protect them from the Germans – isn’t all that good.<\/p>\n

Recent events in the region have rattled nerves throughout central and eastern Europe<\/span>, a region controlled by Moscow<\/span> during the Cold War<\/span>, including the war last summer between Russia and Georgia and ongoing efforts by Russia to regain influence in Ukraine. A Russian cutoff of gas to Ukraine last winter left many Europeans without heat.<\/p>\n

The Bush administration<\/span>‘s plan would have been “a major step in preventing various disturbing trends in our region of the world,” Kaczynski said in a guest editorial in the daily Fakt and also carried on his presidential Web site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a reason many Czechs and Hungarians and Georgians keep photos of Ronald Reagan in their houses; in not a few Polish houses, Reagan’s photo is next to Pope John Paul II’s on the mantelpiece.<\/p>\n

And I’m thinking they’re in no danger of moving.<\/p>\n

Maybe Kerry was right; we could learn a lot from the Europeans…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of years of vassaldom to the Russians, Germans and Austro-Hungarians. 6-7 years under the Nazi jackboot, with millions – millions – dead as they served as a battlefield, a killing field, a death factory, and finally a battlefield again. Two generations as slaves of the Soviets. Just saying, all you Obama supporters – P […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}