Monday, February 05, 2007

A good topic for "Reliable Sources"

Poland canned its defence minister today. A run of the mill story perhaps -- except when he's the husband of Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, and has deep connections to the American Enterprise Institute --

WARSAW, Poland - Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, who has strong ties to the United States, has resigned after the country's prime minister expressed "reservations" about his work, a government spokesman said Monday.

Sikorski's departure deprives Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's weak government of an internationally respected figure, just as Warsaw begins negotiations with Washington over whether to host a missile defense base ...

The Oxford-educated Sikorski, 43, was a deputy defense and deputy foreign minister in previous conservative governments. He worked as a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington immediately before becoming defense minister in October 2005. Sikorski is married to Washington Post columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum.

So an awkward issue for our pundit and reporter overlords to report on. It's not clear what explains the falling out, as Poland was fairly pro-Bush anyway, having hosted the secret renditions air operations before Sikorski got the job last year. But the balancing act between Poland's European Union and US obligations was perhaps getting tougher, not least with the missile defence system, so maybe the ruling twins have decided that the Atlanticist policy (named for a body of water which doesn't touch Poland) was expendable.

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