>
> > Can you imagine Palin trying to handle this meeting? America dodged a b= ullet
> > when she was eliminated.
> >
> > February 8, 2009
> > Biden Says U.S. Is Open to Deal With Russia on Missiles
> > By HELENE COOPER and NICHOLAS KULISH
> > MUNICH - The United States will pursue a missile defense plan that has
> > angered the Kremlin, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Saturday, = but
> > he also left open the possibility of compromise on the issue and struck= a
> > more conciliatory tone than the Bush administration on relations betwee= n the
> > countries.
>
> He just wants to be on television like FDR was when he announced the
> bomb-drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
You really have to stop relying on far-right sources of information.
Hiroshima bomb drop: August 6, 1945 Nagasaki bomb drop: August 9, 1945 Franklin Roosevelt: January 30, 1882 =96 April 12, 1945
Speeches about strategic arms are highly planned and nuanced, right down to each comma, who presents them, and where and when they're presented, to give the intended impression to their intended recipients. For example, the fact that the closure of the American military base in Kyrgyzstan was announced by Kyrgystan's president while he was in Moscow indicates a closer relationship between Russia and Kyrgyzstan than if the president had said it in Kyrgyzstan with only the Russian ambassador present. In the case of the US, the fact that the Biden speech was made by Biden, rather than the secretary of state, also means something, anything from a turf battle between Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, an intent by the US to seem more hawkish, to wanting the statement to not be taken as being official foreign policy (which the State Dept. normally handles).
> Although his language was tempered, Mr. Biden also said, "We will not a= gree
> > with Russia on everything."
> >
> > "For example," he added, "the United States will not recognize Abkhazia= and
> > South Ossetia as independent states. We will not - will not - recognize= any
> > nation having a sphere of influence. It will remain our view that sover= eign
> > states have the right to make their own decisions and choose their own > > alliances."
IOW Russia is free to do whatever it wants against Islamic radicals inside the old Soviet Union, and US operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan are not part of an American plan to build an empire that encroaches against Russia.