Really bad timing on "missle defense shield"

Sort of makes you wonder if they fully understand what they are doing here.

"Coincidentally, the announcement on Thursday involved particularly bad timing, coming on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland after the Nazis attacked from the west. “The fact that the administration chose this day to announce new plans for this missile defense shield says a lot about the people in the White House who are making the decisions about central Europe,” said Slawomir Debski, director of the Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/world/europe/18europe.html?_r=1