Obama Sold Out Allies to Russia for a Bill of Goods?

To be honest, I don't fully understand this whole Wikileaks thing, but I did find this point made by Ace of Spades to be quite interesting:

In May 2009, rumors surfaced that President Obama was planning to leave several European countries exposed to Russian ambition if Russia would agree to help keep nukes out of Iran. Rumors confirmed: according to the Wikileaks cables, Obama proposed a trade -- he would cancel the Polish missile shield if Russia would support sanctions for Iran.

The missile shield was officially canceled in September 2009. Shortly thereafter President Obama met with President Medvedev who came out of the meeting conceding "in some cases, sanctions are inevitable."

A diplomatic victory for Obama? Not remotely. Less than a month later, Russia reversed itself and declared that "[t]hreats, sanctions and threats of pressure in the current situation, we are convinced, would be counterproductive." After the US and the EU imposed tough penalties on Iran in September of this year, Russia immediately condemned the sanctions regime and started finding ways to undermine it.

Obama sold out our allies to Russia for a bill of goods.

President Barack Obama has done a poor job domestically, but it probably will take several years for our nation to realize how poor of a job he has done with foreign affairs. He brought to the table certain key assumptions about foreign policy that have proven to be very wrong- from believing that he could modify our enemies behavior by sitting down with them without preconditions and talking it out, to backing immediate withdrawal of our troops from key strategic locations, to attempting to try terrorists in civilian courts, to bowing to foreign leaders and hoping that would make them like us better, to pushing memes of foreign policy that haven't been accepted since Obama's time in college studying foreign policy.

This particular deal is yet another example how a black-belt in evil outmaneuvered a white-belt in rainbows, and serves to underscore the point that President Obama was not and is not an equal to the task that has been given to him.

For those interested in learning more, check out American Missile Defense: A Guide to the Issues (Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues).

UPDATE: Reader John recommends that we all read a book by Dinesh D'Souza called The Roots of Obama's Rage which he suggests explains Obama's foreign policy.