Below The Beltway

As the days go one, it’s becoming ever more apparent that the President’s decision to forgo construction of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic was probably the right one:
Call it another revolt of the generals. More than 13 years ago, the nation’s military leaders told civilian defense officials they wanted [...]

Former National Security Adviser Zbignew Brezinski has endorsed the President’s decision to scrap a Eastern European missile defense plan, though he thinks the White House badly mishandled how it was announced:
Is the Obama administration decision to end the missile-defense program the right one?
Well, let me first of all say that my view on this subject [...]

As further evidence for the hypothesis that the Eastern European reaction to President Obama’s decision to forgo development of a planned missile defense system won’t be viewed so badly in Eastern Europe, Steven Taylor points to this article from March revealing that it was support for the system that led to the collapse of the [...]

This sure doesn’t sound to me like they think we’ve abandoned them:
A Polish-speaking reader sends over this early poll from the GfK Polonia Research Institute on Obama’s decision to cancel the missile defense site in Poland.
The result: A plurality think it’s a “good decision for Poland,” while only 31% think it’s a bad decision.
See here:

Rough [...]

Tom Nichols at National Review Online makes a case in favor of President Obama’s decision to forgo development of the Polish/Czech missile defense system:
Despite the outcry that President Obama has sold out the Europeans and caved to the Russians by cancelling missile defenses in Europe, it was the right thing to do. Those defenses were [...]

Brent Scowcroft, who served as National Security Adviser for President Ford and President George H.W. Bush, had this to say about the decision to halt the Polish/Czech missile defense system:
Washington, D.C. — Brent Scowcroft, Chairman of the Atlantic Council International Advisory Board and National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, today [...]