I never held Obama up as a great advocate or enabler of missile defense, just wondered why we're so anti-Russia.
Not anti-Russia, but we do have to respect the ruthlessness and end-goal of Putin and that is to regain control of Eastern Europe. If he doesn't fear our might, he will walk all over us ,and he has in the past Let me remind you what he said about Obama, somebody else who thought getting along with Putin was the best strategy.
Vladimir Putin said about Obama:
"Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon.
The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, poops on the board and
then struts around like it won the game."