Mark Steyn thinks so, given the knee-jerk tendency of the Obama Administration to appease tyrants in the hope they will be reasonable, chief among them Czar Putin in Russia:
"Vladimir Putin is no longer president but he is de facto czar. And he thinks it's past time to reconstitute the old empire – not formally (yet), but certainly as a sphere of influence from which the Yanks keep their distance. President Obama has just handed the Russians their biggest win since the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Indeed, in some ways it marks the restitching of the Iron Curtain. When the Czechs signed their end of the missile-defense deal in July, they found themselves afflicted by a sudden "technical difficulty" that halved their gas supply from Russia. The Europe Putin foresees will be one not only ever more energy-dependent on Moscow but security-dependent, too – in which every city is within range of missiles from Tehran and other crazies, and is, in effect, under the security umbrella of the new czar. As to whether such a Continent will be amicable to American interests, well, good luck with that, hopeychangers."
The U.S. clearly can't be bothered by this stuff when there are so many more fun things to do at home like change the health care system and make everything green.
www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-missile-defense-2572467-nuclear-iran
To quote the bumpersticker, "where are we going, and why are we in the handbasket?"
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