When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.

Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, page 413

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Poland demands US troops be based on Polish soil - Telegraph

1. The blowback from Bush 43's moronic foreign policies will be with us for a long time.
2. Running an empire becomes much more challenging when you are bankrupt.


Poland demands US troops be based on Polish soil - Telegraph:

"Poland has demanded that US troops be based on Polish soil in the wake of Russian war games which simulated a nuclear attack and invasion.

Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, said he was alarmed by recent military exercises conducted by the Russian army in Belarus, a country that borders Poland, and wanted the US military as a counterweight.

'We would like to see US troops stationed in Poland to serve as a shield against Russian aggression,' he said.

'If you can still afford it, we need some strategic reassurance.' Despite assurances given by US Vice President Joe Biden last month that Washington would stand by its Central-European ally there is growing unease in Poland that its interests have been sacrificed by an America eager to curry favour with Moscow."

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