Russia: Poland risks attack because of US missiles

Dangerous times require dangerous leaders.

You'd think we would've learned something from the Cuban Missile Crisis: countries don't like it when you arm nearby countries -- and pushing an anti-missile system on Russia's neighbor is guaranteed to make the bear even more skittish. Yet here's the Bush maladministration imposing democratic imperialism at Russia's doorstep:

Poland and the United States on Thursday signed a deal for Poland to accept a missile interceptor base as part of a system the United States says is aimed at blocking attacks by rogue nations. Moscow, however, feels it is aimed at Russia's missile force.

"Poland, by deploying (the system) is exposing itself to a strike — 100 percent," Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of staff, was quoted as saying.

What on earth is Bush thinking? Why should we risk nuclear war to defend Warsaw? Or Tbilisi, for that matter?

But then, as Pat Buchanan points out here, DC has been seeking to fill the ideological and political vacuum caused by the collapse of the Communist bloc for some time, including during the "liberal" Clinton regime -- and all the while, demanding other nations live by a set of rules that somehow don't apply to the US:

Russia has invaded a sovereign country, railed Bush. But did not the United States bomb Serbia for 78 days and invade to force it to surrender a province, Kosovo, to which Serbia had a far greater historic claim than Georgia had to Abkhazia or South Ossetia, both of which prefer Moscow to Tbilisi?

Is not Western hypocrisy astonishing?

So here we are, getting a glimpse of the chaos and danger of DC's globalist agenda.