Poland: Obama Gives The Word “Ally” a New Twist….OF THE KNIFE!!!

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Today, we will bring the topic into today’s world by taking a look at how the Obama Administration has treated Poland and the Polish people.

Let’s start with a particularly famous Pole: Lech Walesa.

The Goddess of Capitalism adores this hero of freedom. Normally, an American administration treats this Polish icon extremely well — there are millions of Polish Americans just like Rik (including vast numbers in swing states). Here is what previous administrations have done:

Every Polish president since the fall of communism has visited America. President Lech Walesa first visited the U.S. in March 1991, flying to Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. He encouraged Polish-Americans and others to invest in the Polish economy, and was successful in lobbying for relief of Poland’s official debt.

But not Team Obama, whose approach to foreign policy at least the benefit of being innovative: President Obama Shuns Lech Walesa

Lech Walesa was once a trade-union activist. He was often arrested for speaking his mind against Communist oppression behind the Iron Curtain in Poland and for defying the Soviet Union. He was an electrician who, with no higher education, led one of the most profound freedom movements of the 20th century — Solidarity. He became president of Poland and swept in reforms, pushing the Soviet Union out of his homeland and moving the country toward a free-market economy and individual liberty. And President Obama doesn’t want him to set foot in the White House.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Polish officials requested that Walesa accept the Medal of Freedom on behalf of Jan Karski, a member of the Polish Underground during World War II who was being honored posthumously this week. The request makes sense. Walesa and Karski shared a burning desire to rid Poland of tyrannical subjugation. But President Obama said no.

Administration officials told the Journal that Walesa is too “political.” A man who was arrested by Soviet officials for dissenting against the government for being “political” is being shunned by the United States of America for the same reason 30 years later.

Every Polish president since the fall of communism has visited America. President Lech Walesa first visited the U.S. in March 1991, flying to Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. He encouraged Polish-Americans and others to invest in the Polish economy, and was successful in lobbying for relief of Poland’s official debt.

Obama calling Walesa “too political” is the most clearly defined case of projection that I have ever observed.

I have a feeling that on Nov. 6th, Walesa will have the last laugh: Walesa Endorses Romney

But Walesa isn’t only the only Pole to be treated with such care by Team Obama. A piece entitled “Much has gone wrong with U.S.- Poland relations” states: President Obama was also woefully unprepared for discussions about Poland’s request to rescind the policy requiring Polish citizens to obtain a visa in order to visit the U.S. The visa process is lengthy, requires Poles to wait in long lines at U.S. Consular offices and is expensive for Polish citizens. Visas aren’t required for citizens of twenty-seven other nations, including several not nearly as loyal to the U.S. as Poland, fueling the sense that Poles are treated as second-class citizens.

Rik is upset with this inanity, especially as it has real, human consequences:

My Documentor is now stuck in Belarus and can’t get back in the US after living here for some 20 years (he overstayed his Visa time and made a life for himself). I need him back here in the U.S. to assist me with my writing and translations as he helped my late father for decades, and he can’t get back in.

For all the contributions that Poland has given the world let alone the U.S., she receives second class treatment. The powers that be, are still treating Poland as a revolving door to other interests. Napoleon did it, Roosevelt did it, and our current President is still doing it. Nobody renders Poland the due credit it deserves. I’m told at issue is any of the countries that Russia considers important enough to keep an eye on and possibly re-occupy. While other potential terrorist-laden countries don’t experience this Visa issue equally, Poland is one of about four other countries that are subject to it no matter how much she has given to the free world. That suggests clearly, a higher agenda by such powers that be.

Poland has been given the same “under the bus” treatment so many of our best, longest term allies have enjoyed. In August, the following story posted: Polish President Blasts Obama on Missile Defense

This week, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski accused the Obama Administration of betrayal, saying, “Our mistake was that by accepting the American offer of a [missile defense] shield we failed to take into account the political risk associated with a change of president.… We paid a high political price. We do not want to make the same mistake again. We must have a missile system as an element of our defences.”

In 2009, President Obama cancelled the deal the U.S. had with Poland and the Czech Republic to build an interceptor site and radar that would provide protection of the U.S. homeland and allies from rogue ballistic missiles. Polish and Czech leaders took on the task of educating their populations of the necessity of defending their populations from Iranian missiles, of collaborating with the U.S. to do this, of having American soldiers on their territory, and—the hardest of all—that the blowback from Russia over the sites was worth it.

I don’t know if this chestnut is going to make President Komorowski feel better, but Obama’s is simply treating them to the same national security considerations he gives to our nation: Disarming America: Obama Betrays Reagan’s Dream

One more thought on this article:  Obama’s mistreatment of one ally has made it a target of regional aggression. Here is an aspect of Obama foreign policy that may come to haunt us: With all the chaos in the Middle East, Russia can get all Soviet on Central Europe and China can go after Japan and Taiwan.

The last news items is something my history fans will enjoy: Sunken treasure reappears after 350 years thanks to Polish drought

Treasure taken by looting Swedes that sank to the bottom of Poland’s River Vistula 350 years ago has re-emerged thanks to a drought that has seen water levels drop to their lowest in some centuries.

I am sure if the treasure seekers look hard enough, they will find the knife Obama is twisting in the back of the Polish people!