right blogistan is aflutter because michael goldfarb noticed that the obama administration is scrapping bush's missile defense plans for eastern europe.
what took them so long? the decision was in the news one month ago. and contrary to their hyperventilating about obama selling out our allies, all this does is finally bring u.s. policy in line with where public opinion has been in both poland and the czech republic for quite some time. in fact, earlier in the year opposition to the deployment of an american missile defense system caused the czech government to fall. it's not selling out our allies when we're doing what they want.
as robert farley said last month when this actually was news, the missile defense plan never made much sense. which is probably why the bright lights of the right are so committed to the idea.
