Irony and the Iron Curtain

September 17, 2009, President Obama has announced that he will reverse the policy and cancel the program that was to build a missile defense shield based in Czechoslovakia and Poland, on the very anniversary of the day the Soviet Union initiated the action that resulted in the Iron Curtain.

September 17, 1939, 70 years ago today, Stalin's Red Army invaded and subsumed Poland and began the enslavement of eastern Europe, which lasted until Lech Walesa, Pope John Paul II, and President Ronald Reagan worked together to remove that curtain and begin to redecorate Europe with real hope and change.

What's next, are we going to celebrate December 7 by decommissioning the Pacific Fleet in the name of pan-Asian peace?