Thomas Sowell Recommend this article  While everyone's attention
seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell
revelation about the administration's foreign policy in Europe
has largely gone unnoticed.    One of Barack Obama's first acts
as President of the United States was to fly to Russia and try
to get a deal with the Russian government by welshing on an
existing American commitment to put a nuclear shield in Eastern
Europe.  Obama's glib rhetoric about how he was pressing "the
reset button" on American foreign policy treated the ongoing
international commitments of the American government as
something that each new administration is free to disregard.
Nations that ally themselves with the United States, and who
cooperate in many ways to oppose the threat of international
terrorism, do so at the risk of their own national safety and
even survival. To make America's reciprocal commitments to them
contingent on the whims of each new administration is to make
other nations have to think twice abou