MORE AND MORE AND MORE - AT 9:49 A.M. ET:  Distracted by end-of-summer activities, the health-care debate, and the death of Ted Kennedy, many Americans may not be aware of the cut-and-run retreat policies that are building up under this administration's foreign policy.  Add this to the list, as reported by The New York Times:

BERLIN — The Obama administration has developed possible alternative plans for a missile defense shield that could drop hotly disputed sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, a move that would please Russia and Germany but sour relations with American allies in Eastern Europe.

Administration officials said they hoped to complete their months-long review of the planned antimissile system as early as next month, possibly in time for President Obama to present ideas to President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia at a meeting in New York during the annual opening at the General Assembly of the United Nations.

COMMENT:  Problem is, Barack Obama doesn't see Poland and the Czech Republic as American allies, but as American burdens.  Obama's real allies are the leftists around the world. 

One by one, the bulwarks of freedom are being dismantled - the gutting of the war on terror, our groveling before an ousted Honduran ally of Fidel Castro, our unspeakable indifference to brave Iranian protesters, our downplaying human rights in virtually every area of the globe, Obama's apology campaign, and much more.

It is getting very, very serious.

August 29, 2009