News just in says that Poland just signed on to the missile defense deal.

Warsaw and Washington signed a preliminary deal Thursday on basing part of a US missile shield in Poland, in the face of Moscow’s vehement opposition and mounting East-West tensions over Georgia. US and Polish negotiators inked the accord in a ceremony after two days of talks in the Polish capital.

I wonder if the above should be rewritten as: Warsaw and Washington signed a preliminary deal Thursday on basing part of a US missile shield in Poland, because of mounting East-West tensions over Georgia.

If Georgia or the West had been ready to exploit the informational value of the Russian move Putin would be in real trouble. As it is, Russia may be facing a strategic catastrophe. Germany has encouraged Georgia to apply for NATO membership. Germany. There’s a desire not only to stop Putin but stick it to him. And back east, the Chinese Pac-men continue to chomp, chomp, chomp on Russia’s extremities.

Information warfare in the service of strategic idiocy is still idiocy.