POLAND PLEADS - AT 6:33 A.M. ET:  This is sad:

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Poland said on Sunday it hoped the new U.S. administration would not abandon plans to station a missile defence system on its territory.

President Barack Obama's administration is reviewing U.S. security policy, including the missile shield plan. This has prompted speculation he might shelve a project that has angered Moscow, with which Washington wants to mend ties.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Poland had taken "something of a political risk" in signing an agreement with the Bush administration to host the system.

COMMENT:  This is pathetic - a brave ally of the United States begging for us to maintain our commitments.  What a comedown for this country.  But, of course, this is "realism."  After all, Russia is a larger country than Poland.  Well, it may be realism in the short term, but it's betrayal and treachery in the long term.  And we just won't be America anymore, not that this would matter to some of the elites in the Obama orbit.

March 23, 2009