Obama: Still a ways to go in Central and Eastern Europe

Sally McNamara / April 06, 2010

If President Obama thinks that signing his prized arms control treaty with Russia on Czech soil will repair the damage he’s done to relations with Central and Eastern Europe, he’s wrong. Cutting a deal with the Russian bear in Prague is hardly the way to tell your allies that it’s not all about Russia.

Although cheering crowds greeted Obama a year ago when he told adoring Czechs of his vision for a world without nuclear weapons, Europe now is much more cautiously embracing the President’s risky and naïve agenda. The new U.S.-Russian START Treaty – reducing deployable nuclear warhead by a third – has come at a very steep price for the U.S. (more…)