Not every ally is treated to presidential bows. Of course, our president bows even to those who are not our allies — ask Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier. (The PRC is not our ally, is it?) For some of our allies, President Obama has a cold shoulder, as those in Eastern Europe, Israel, and Honduras have learned. But these allies soldier on. Poland does so literally.

As this article reports, Poland is sending 600 more troops to Afghanistan next year — a not-insignificant number for that country. You remember that President Obama undercut Poland and the Czech Republic on missile defense. Hillary Clinton called the Polish prime minister to inform him of this undercutting; he did not take the call.

Anyway, the above-cited report quotes Radek Sikorski, who is Poland’s foreign minister and a onetime contributor to National Review. (He has been a cruise guest of ours, too.) He said that Poland’s additional troops were meant to “help Afghanistan enter the right path — the path Iraq is already on.” An excellent remark — and one that the Obama people would do well to ponder and swallow.