Really none at this point.
Fine, but we do not do so by taking any credibility to our hard line stance off the table.
We have been putting missiles in Eastern Europe long before Bush showed up on the scene. Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? The United States did not win the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia put missiles in Cuba, and we caved in Turkey and with invasion promises for Cuba. Thank god we kept it quiet, or NATO would have probably imploded.
I agree that Bush's foreign policy has not been the most diplomatic, but it has not been the worst either. If we continue to cave in on foreign policy objectives we not only lose our own interests, but our allies take notice and get worried that they are next to be bailed on.
We are reacting is a provocative manner? Russia invaded Georgia! Iran is going nuclear. Eastern and Western Europe want the missile shield. We already bailed on Georgia, Poland took a major note of that. What is next? We bail on Poland? Then what? You don't think Israel will take note of that? Saudi Arabia will notice. Europe and South America will notice.
Our foreign policy approach predates Bush. We were willing to take an aggressive stance on Russia before, which kept the Cold War contained. We do not seem to be willing to do so again.
Doubtful that this will occur to any great extent. Saudi Arabia relies to heavily on American arms to risk upsetting the current oil/arms relationship that Washington has with Riyadh.
Israel is not going to be overly devastated that we are unable to press an issue with Hamas. What they are going to be overly devastated about is if we allow a nuclear arms race in the Middle East between countries that hate them. We are on our way to doing just that.
