Czech Premier Jan Fischer told reporters in Prague on Thursday that Obama phoned him to say that Washington has decided to scrap the plan that had deeply angered Russia.
Fischer says Obama confirmed that Washington no longer intends to put 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic.
The Bush administration had said the missile shield was a strategic way to counter a threat from Iran or another rogue state in the Middle East. But Russia was deeply angered by the prospect of having U.S. interceptor rockets in countries so close to its territory.
Another idiotic move by Obama . . ., but that is to be expected. The United States is being undermined by this administration. We are being destroyed from within . . .
I didn't save the article, but the word on the street is that Obama agreed to scrap the shield if Putin signed some kind of trade deal with General Electric.