Poland Was Poleaxed

During the Second World War, the Free Poles and the Polish Resistance sacrificed much to regain liberty and autonomy, only to be betrayed by the West and sold into the (Stalinist) Soviet sphere. Poland did more than other captive countries to reassert human freedom, with the cost being measured in many thousands of lives (with the obvious caveat that more deaths occurred in the compressed time span of Prague Spring in the Czech Revolt of 1968 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in failed efforts to shake off the Communist yoke than in Poland's eventual triumph with the rise of the successful Solidarity Movement in the 1980s that helped break the back of the Soviet Empire). The Polish nation has stood with America as a staunch defender of Western values not only in Afghanistan but even in unpopular involvements like Iraq. To show America's gratitude and his own depth of thought, Barack Hussein Obama slandered Poland and slurred liberty-loving Poles by declaring "Polish death camps" in a ceremony meant to honor Jan Karski that also had deliberately excluded champion of freedom Lech Walesa for supposedly being "too political". Was Walesa excessively political when he helped bring down the Iron Curtain? Poland has every right to be sensitive and to worry that America might not stand by security commitments, particularly after Obama once again sold out the Polish people by backing away from missile defense in a way that threatened Poland and emboldened Russia to return to her expansionist aspiration. The US can count on Poland as a reliable ally. The question is: Can Poland count on the USA so long as Obama is our leader?