The ship-based SM-3
missile, now being modified for land-based
uses as part of a new
and improved U.S.anti-missile
system.
Romania Liberia, Romania
Romanians Must Reject Opponents of American Anti-Missile Shield
"The
anti-missile shield that the U.S. wants to install in Romania by 2015 annoys
everyone who despises Western civilization. … There remain economic and
political forces in Romania that are disturbed by the influence of the E.U. or
any U.S. presence."
The American-financed anti-missile
shield, designed to defend Romania and Southeast Europe, troubles all of those
who prefer to remain separate from the NATO umbrella. The anti-missile shield that
the U.S. wants to install in Romania by 2015 annoys everyone who despises
Western civilization. The anti-missile shield, the purpose of which is to
protect Romania and adjacent areas, creates hysteria among all of those who,
like former President Ion
Iliescu, for years opposed the emergence of Romania from Moscow's sphere of
influence. The installation of anti-missile defense elements on Romanian soil,
including the planned mobile platforms on the Black Sea, worry the same dubious
nationalists who in 1999, accused then President Emil Constantinescu of a national
betrayal for considering NATO's intervention in the Kosovo conflict to be
legitimate.
And then as now, a huge media
machine was set in motion to convince Romanians that the West wants to, "destroy
Balkan civilization, because without cause, NATO bombarded Serbia, Milosovic
had every reason to massacre Kosovars
and everyone should settle their own problems, "without the intervention
of foreign powers."
Posted
by WORLDMEETS.US
There remain economic and
political forces in Romania that are disturbed by the influence of the European
Union or any U.S. presence on Romanian soil. There are still plenty of politically-active
businesspeople and powerful media offended by the rules handed down by Brussels
[the E.U.], who hamper reform and don't want the rule of law, but only power.
Well-heeled businesspeople in the long years of transition were not well disposed
toward the West, because their financial success came during a troubled time
when Romania was in a grey area, when the laws of the country were shaky, and
the state was like a generous cow to be milked.
Any step Romania takes toward
the West is seen as dangerous for capitalists educated at the school of doing
business with the state, for those obtaining special laws from Parliament dedicated
especially to them, for the clever boys who know what minister to make friends
with in order to buy state commodities cheaply, and where they could find
suckers to sell them to at high prices.
The world of “godfather
capitalists,” erected at the behest of former President Iliescu in the early 1990s
was no admirer of American democracy. The inter-party world of businesspeople who
couldn't remain millionaires without political influence doesn't welcome the rule
of Brussels. The greasy world of politicians and businessmen trapped by the old
system despises democratic standards and uses all means at its disposal to hold
on to as much of Romania as it can; and at a minimum, to denounce those who try
to displace it.
Former President Emil Constantinescu
was defeated by this force, because he supported the NATO invasion of the
former Yugoslavia. Those who are discontent with the way Romania is moving into
a Western orbit have various ways of taking their revenge. These manifest themselves
on TV stations and in newspapers manipulated by the circle of interests who
want to turn things back to the way they were.
The U.S.
anti-missile shield, which will be installed by 2015, worries all of those who
fear that Romania will become more important once it houses facilities for protecting
not only our national space, but the entire region. Geography will assume another
dimension for Romania, once it is endowed with these new defensive
installations - and the nervous reaction of Russian ambassador to NATO, Dmitri
Rogozin, confirms the importance of Bucharest's new role.
In a message posted on the Internet,
the Russian diplomat wrote, “The Americans and their allies again want to
surround the cave of the Russian bear? How many times must they be reminded how
dangerous this is!? The bear will come out and kick the ass of these pathetic
hunters.”
Ion Iliescu and the other
anti-American detractors of the missile shield can now tout Moscow’s overt
threat, made in a most blunt diplomatic style.
