If you can't beat them, nuke them

What do you do if your presidential predecessor set up a plan for a new missile facility? A facility widely supported in the U.S. because national defence should be the priority. A facility that represents the animosity of the rest of the world to the U.S's wide use of nuclear weapons. A facility considered by the Russians as in their back yard (because Poland to the Russians is just Russia on a freedom holiday). And you're trying to push through a rather controversial healthcare bill.

Well you scrap it of course!

Yes Obama has decided to keep on detoxing the White House of the Bush era. First off, the prez is perfectly aware that relations with Russians are a tad important - the Cold War anyone?! Also, he's a Liberal. And a good proper liberal Liberal, and therefore by definition he can't like nuclear weapons. There are a multitude of other reasons for a change of US heart. Maybe Obama is a Yoko Ono fan and would like a free concert. Maybe he's got a bit of a retro flower power vibe going on atm. But really it's probably cos later on this week the UN General Assembly is taking place - somehow I don't think the timing is accidental. B.O. is, at heart, just a politician after all. PR opps are in his blood.

But then again maybe, just maybe, this is suggesting big things for the US. And maybe Obama just shot them a hoop.