A Serious Mistake
September 17, 2009
New York Times Room for Debate Blog
While not surprised by President Obama’s decision, I’m nonetheless very disappointed and think it’s a serious mistake.
Leaders in Moscow, by comparison, must feel victorious. Coming days before Obama meets Dmitri Medvedev in New York and Pittsburgh , the decision clearly seems timed to remove from the U.S.-Russian agenda an issue that the Russians didn’t like — namely, that we were working with Poland and the Czech Republic on missile defense.
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