A Stab in the Back

Weekly Standard "Even those who agree with the administration's approach concede that the rollout was clumsy--middle of the night phone calls and little prior consultation. In July 2007, Senator Obama criticized his predecessor for this very thing. The Bush administration, he said, had "done a poor job of consulting its NATO allies about the deployment of a missile defense system that has major implications for all of them." In addition to the geopolitical implications of this con-cession to Russia, there are several major problems with the administration's plan." The Poles and the Czechs should be used to this from Western democracies.