Land of Magog Victory!
America’s Talking Heads,
Left looking Naive & Weak,
Diplomatic Dialog is all Over,
On a US Europe Missile Shield,
Obama GIVES UP TO Magogites!
2015 will be too little and too Late,
For E.U. Missile Shield To Be In Place,
Cause last war of age will have Begun!
September 18, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Ezekiel 39:6 – And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am
the Lord.
Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Special Report
New US anti-missile system in Israel, Azerbaijan to replace scrapped shield in E.
Europe
DEBKAfile Special Report
September 17, 2009, 9:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Deputy US army chief, Gen. James Cartwright and defense secretary Robert Gates amplified President Barack Obama’s statement on the US missile shield in East Europe in Washington Thursday, Sept. 17, by announcing that a new and better anti-missile missile system would be deployed in Israel and the Caucasus.
DEBKAfile discloses exclusively that the site would be a Russian military base in Azerbaijan.
Referring to the Israeli component, he said: “It is already working perfectly.”
DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose he was referring to the advanced American FBX-T radar system deployed last year in Israel’s Negev base at Nevatim, which is capable of tracking a missile launched from the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and beyond. The system, product of Ray theon, is mobile and capable of detecting incoming bodies
the size of a baseball from a distance of 4,700 km, determining its speed and angle of flight and transmitting the data to an interceptor at any point on earth.
DEBKAfile reported earlier Thursday:
The Obama administration’ s deci
sion to shelve the plan to install US missile interceptors and radar systems in Poland and the Czech Republic was released Thursday, Sept. 17. The shield was promoted by the Bush administration in the face of strong Russian opposition for the purpose of shielding Europe from long-range Iranian ballistic missile attack.
DEBKAfile reports that Barack Obama’s decision prompted Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s surprise comment Monday, Sept. 14, that his government no longer rules out further sanctions against Iran
– although the Kremlin has always denied its cooperation with the US on the Iranian nuclear issue was contingent on the removal of the US missile shield plan.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly in its coming issue (out Friday) will reveal how the shared US-Russian wish to avert an Israeli military strike against Iran produced Obama’s decision to ditch the missile shield in East Europe.
Our Washington sources report that the decision follows a 60-day assessment of the issue announced by Obama.
On Aug. 29, DEBKAfile reported exclusively from East European sources that Washington was considering the transfer of its missile plan from Poland and the Czech Republic possibly to Israel and Turkey.
This decision is an important foreign policy step for Obama; it is a prize for Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin, who fought the US shield plan on Russia’s doorstep tooth and nail, and a major strategic reversal for Iran. Moscow’s cooperation removes a key obstacle on the road to harsh sanctions against Iran. Acting in concert with Moscow, Washington can dispense with Beijing’s endorsement.
Nonetheless, DEBKAfile’s Moscow sources stress, it is not entirely clear how far the Kremlin is willing to go in partnering the US drive against Iran. Russian leaders will take good care not to appear to the Muslim and Arab world as Iran’s enemy or a trading and diplomatic partner who reneges on its commitments.
Our Washington sources note the Obama administration cleverly presented its surrender to Moscow as an upgrade and reorganization of US missile defenses into a more advanced, faster, and deadlier system.
Gates said Iran’s short and medium range program is not advancing as US intelligence originally estimated, and therefore the US can base its operations for now on mobile defense systems, mainly at sea, and on intercept missiles to be stationed closer to where the source of the threats.
“Anyone who says we are abandoning our plans for missile defense in Europe does not understand how we operate,” said the defense secretary.
Gen. Cartwright presented the time schedule for the new system as NOT BEFORE 2015, MEANING IN SIX YEARS.
End Excerpt from DEBKAfile
Begin Quote from last 3 paragraphs of September 18, 2009 Jerusalem Post Article by Caroline Glick, “Column One: Our irredeemable international system:”
“[Unlike Bush, Obama has enthusiastically embraced the notion that the UN should by rights have a leading role in international affairs. He has also accepted the UN’s basic notion that in the interest of world peace, the US and its democratic allies should bow to the desires of despots and dictators.
So it is that this week he abandoned US allies Poland and the Czech Republic in his bid to appease Russia. So it is that his administration has sided with ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, who, with the support of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, sought to undermine Honduran democracy against Honduras’s lawful government and democratic defenders. So it is that the administration has sided with the genocidal mullahs in Teheran over their democratic opponents. So it is that the administration has adopted the view that Israel is to blame for the absence of peace in the Middle East and embraced as legitimate political actors Palestinian terror groups that refuse to accept Israel’s right to exist.
Until Obama came along, Israel could afford not to make too much of the fact that its enemies control the UN-led system of international institutions, because it could trust that the US would use its Security Council veto to prevent these forces from causing it any real harm. This is no longer the case. With the Obama administration fully on board the UN agenda, Israel and other threatened democracies like Honduras, Poland, the Czech Republic, South Korea and Japan will have to loudly proclaim the UN-based international system’s inherent moral, political and legal corruption and seek ways to undermine and weaken its power.]”
Begin Excerpt from the UK Times On Line
The Times
September 18, 2009
A shot in the arm for Russia; a possible shot in the foot for the US
Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent and Tony Halpin in Moscow
Dmitri Medvedev could be forgiven for having a celebratory shot of vodka with breakfast yesterday morning at the news that President Obama plans to abandon America’s missile defence shield in Eastern Europe. Mr Obama will have longer to wait before he can judge whether or not to celebrate.
At best, the development raises hopes of a warmer relationship between Moscow and Washington and the chance of greater co-operation on the many issues of global concern that founder under a Russian veto at the United Nations Security Council — Iran’s nuclear arsenal being the most pressing. At worst, it is proof to Moscow that Mr Obama is weak, that intransigence pays off and that the best way to get what it wants is to do nothing.
Moscow denies that any deal was made in advance, but the denial is semantic: it knows exactly what Washington wants.
In February, President Obama sent a letter to Mr Medvedev setting out the trade. A shield in Eastern Europe might not be necessary, he noted, if Russia got on board against the Iranian nuclear threat. Mr Medvedev was cool on the letter, then complained of a lack of specifics. Next week he and Mr Obama meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
That will be the time for specifics.
Washington wants tough new sanctions on Iran’s energy sector — sanctions that Russia has long opposed. Moscow seems divided on that now, at least publicly, with President Medvedev apparently mulling sanctions over, while Sergei Lavrov, his Foreign Minister, rules them out. Russia could offer other help over Iran. In 2007 it signed a deal to provide Iran with its own S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to protect it s nuclear facilitie
s. Israel has vowed to bomb Iran if it believes that the system is on its way. Saudi Arabia has offered what amounts to a bribe, promising to buy $2 billion (£1.2 billion) in Russian arms if Moscow scraps the deal — an attractive offer when Russia is trying to increase its share of the Middle Eastern arms market.
Russia’s gain is Poland’s and the Czech Republic’s loss. They have missed out on the huge American military footprint that hosting the shield would have brought them, a presence that they saw as a bulwark against an assertive Russia. Ukraine and Georgia’s chances of admission to Nato look further away than ever, as does the Alliance’s easternward expansion.
The timing is disastrous for Ukraine in particular, given the Kremlin’s determin ation to reverse the pro-Western Or
ange Revolution and ensure victory for a pro-Russian candidate at the presidential elections in January. But just as Western encroachment into Russia’s “sphere of influence” seemed only to make Moscow more belligerent, a greater sense of security could make it more inclined to leave its neighbours alone. It is a faint hope for the former Soviet states.
The reaction of the Middle East reaction has been notably mute. If Russian pressure on Tehran begins to yield Iranian concessions on its nuclear programme, Israel could begin to negotiate peace with the Palestinians. A first step would be to heed Mr Obama’s calls to halt settlement building on the West Bank.
A more compliant and less belligerent Iran would also reduce the threat of a Middle Eastern arms race, where Sunni Arab nations have started looking at the development of their own nuclear deterrents.
Saudi Arabia has argued for American protection over the region to deter an arms race. The redeployed shield could calm the nerves of Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who have warned that they too could go nuclear if Iran is allowed to get the bomb.
Who stands to gain
Dream scenario
• Russia reverses course and backs tough new sanctions on Iran.
Withdraws aid and nuclear fuel agreements with Tehran
• Iran feels the pressure and begins to negotiate the dismantling of its nuclear weapons programme Israel feels less threatened and, in return, freezes settlements as part of genuine efforts to forge peace with the Palestinians
• Arab nations feel less threatened by Iran and drop thoughts of developing their own nuclear capability
• Russia agrees a new arms reduction treaty with the US, slashing its nuclear stockpiles. It becomes less aggressive in its overtures to anti-US Latin American states such as Venezuela and reaches a compromise on Nato expansion
Nightmare scenario
• Russia pockets Obama’s missile defence concession but finds new gripes to continue blocking sanctions against Iran. It finally supplies S300 air-defence missiles to Tehran, which it has agreed to sell but not yet delivered
• An emboldened Iran continues to develop its nuclear weapons programme
• An increasingly rattled Israel digs in on peace talks, continues settlement building on Palestinian territory and prepares to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities unilaterally. A Middle East arms race begins as Arabs look to develop their own nuclear deterrent
• Moscow continues to expand its influence in America’s backyard, meddle in the affairs of former Soviet states and use energy supply as a political weapon
• Mr Obama is LEFT LOOKING NAÏVE AND WEAK
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