1. What's the basis for believing those nations are pissed off?
2. Poland isn't a long-time US ally. Hell, it's been an enemy within the past two decades.
Poles, Czechs: U.S. Missile Defense Shift A "Betrayal"
From a leftist blog, no less.
Obama has fucked our credibility to the point that noone will trust us. There are those who may have disliked Bush, but at least you knew what he stood for, and he kept his word.
Besides failing horrifically on Iran, he has now admitted Gitmo won't be closed by year end - so where is the leftwing media backlash for that?
First, Huffington Post isn't a blog.
Second, the article you linked to was not written a Huffington Post writer, it was written by the Associated Press.
Third, the article is just a mash of statements by right-wing Czech politicans and right-wing Polish newspaper who opposed the decision. Czechs and Poles overall, however, were very much opposed to the program and are glad to see it go.