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The Prague Post | 29th January 2010

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Czechs say they are overlooked in U.S. foreign policy plans

Amid ongoing criticism from Central European officials that the United States overlooks the region in its foreign policy, the Polish Defense Ministry confirmed Jan. 21 that it will deploy U.S. surface-to-air missiles just 60 kilometers from the Russian border.

After the Obama administration scrapped the Bush administration's missile-defense plans - which called for missiles in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic - charges of neglect grew louder, but the latest move, along with a series of diplomatic maneuvers, sheds light on a U.S. policy clearly focused on Poland, Central Europe's largest country, which shares a border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad...

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KarlNaylor 29th January 2010

And these Patriot Missiles will achieve what other than stimulate Putin into developing the Russian military-industrial complex there just as these missiles are part of a feeble climbdown after the Missille Shield scheme fell through ?

Polish leaders need to improve their diplomacy as well as their inability to enforce the depoilation of both historical cities like Krakow and protect the environment. Really, this move is so counter productive and a petty minded form of war gaming.

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