A peek into the future
The Georgia crisis has given us a peek into the future and a glimpse of what President McCain and President Obama would do in a crisis. An AFP story reports;
“During an international crisis when bipartisanship is needed most, it’s disappointing that the Obama campaign has chosen to launch inflammatory and baseless political attacks,” said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.
He was responding to an attack from Obama’s top foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, who said the Republican’s strident rhetoric against Russia would backfire.
“When this crisis began, Barack Obama, the administration indeed and all of our NATO allies took a measured and reasoned approach because we were dealing with the facts as we knew them,” Rice told MSNBC late Tuesday.
“John McCain shot from the hip – very aggressive, very belligerent statement. And he may or may not have complicated the situation,” she said.
Campaigning in Pennsylvania Tuesday, McCain declared that “today we are all Georgians,” as he attacked Russia’s “gross and outrageous over-reaction” and demanded that Moscow be evicted from the G8 grouping of leading powers.
McCain an old Reagan cold warrior told the truth about the incident and spoke in old warrior terms…terms that won us the cold war. The Obama team, on the other hand, took the old Cold War Post-Truman Democrat stand – they began pussyfooting around with the language and accusing McCain of being a cowboy – just like this poster that came out in the early 80s;
The worn out Post-Truman, post-Long Telegram Democrats culminated in the failures of the Carter Administration and led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and that’s what we’re cleaning up today.
NPR laments the fact that McCain is showing off his foreign policy credentials while Obama takes a vacation;
With Barack Obama on vacation, John McCain has the campaign trail and the airwaves largely to himself. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been displaying his foreign policy credentials on the Georgia-Russia conflict.
In the Wall Street Journal, John McCain writes “We Are All Georgians” and reminds us that the world isn’t a safe place, no matter how much you hope for change;
For anyone who thought that stark international aggression was a thing of the past, the last week must have come as a startling wake-up call. After clashes in the Georgian region of South Ossetia, Russia invaded its neighbor, launching attacks that threaten its very existence. Some Americans may wonder why events in this part of the world are any concern of ours. After all, Georgia is a small, remote and obscure place. But history is often made in remote, obscure places.
McCain explains the situation to the American people, while Democrats complain about McCain’s language more than they complain about the Russian invasion of Georgia. Sound familiar? It certainly does to those of us who lived through the 80s.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, John McCain/Sarah Palin, Liberals suck, Politics
Yes, McCain’s language sounds familiar – familiar to the “positions” taken by the majority of the readership on this blog. The general rule of thumb here is to attack anyone you disagree with using insults while never presenting a coherent, logical position as your own.
Further, Georgia is a US proxy state. The CIA has been active there for years, we’ve actively been training their military, etc. so the hostilities should come as no surprise to anyone who is vaguely familiar with international politics. One again our overseas meddling has caused a crisis, and the solution presented by McCain, Obama, and others is just more and more intervention.
Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results – meshes well with both campaigns’ stances on Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. doesn’t it?
The fact that the US sent its military to provide “humanitarian assistance” in Georgia should tell you everything you need to know about our government’s view of the world. This situation will not end peacefully so long as we adhere to a foolish foreign policy.
Jonn wrote: “…attack anyone you disagree with using insults while never presenting a coherent, logical position…” The only person I see doing that is you. Where’s your “coherent, logical position”? Did I miss it somewhere among your insults?
Yes, you did. I refer you to paragraphs 2-4.
Bottom line: this conflict is none of the US’ business, yet we’re sending our military into the country to provide “humanitarian assistance.” Exactly how a military provides humanitarian assistance is beyond me.
I do find it darkly comedic that neocon mouthpieces like Bill Kristol have attempted to use International Law and invading-another-sovereign-country-is-illegal to buttress their arguments in favor of US intervention. Surely the irony is too thick to ignore…even for you, eh Jonn?
Obama and McCain differ in degree, not kind. If you love interventionism – and your words indicate that you do – you’ll be happy with either candidate. So please stop pretending that this election presents any semblance of a choice.
Jonn wrote; “Exactly how a military provides humanitarian assistance is beyond me.” A lot of things are beyond you, Eddie.
Jonn- Let me help you out buddy. Eddie- you’re nothing but a blowhard leftist moonbat. Go back to your mom’s basement and put your tinfoil hat on.
Looks like Obama picked the wrong week to go on vacation. Who takes a vacation in the middle of the most important few weeks of your professional life anyways?
And what’s up with McCain? Wasn’t losing one war to the commies enough for him? Does he want to settle the score for getting his butt whipped by Vietnam? Let it go John.
And what’s up with McCain? Wasn’t losing one war to the commies enough for him? Does he want to settle the score for getting his butt whipped by Vietnam? Let it go John.
I don’t think Jonn will let this go and I won’t either. We didn’t lose the war in Vietnam, it got defunded by gutless politicians when we had the North Vietnamese against the ropes, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat!
I suppose you can say the McCain got his butt whipped in the Hanoi Hilton. I guess that’s what torture at the hands of the communists will do to a person. Here’s a link to a youtube where McCain’s cellmate describes what the communists did to them:
McCain POW Cellmate Speaks Out on McCain’s Heroism
correction to my previous post:
snatching victory from the jaws of defeat!
should be
snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
🙂
The democrats have spent the last 30+ years trying to cover up the ‘fact’ that the U.S. won the war in Vietnam and turned the country over to the ‘people’. I think you can still find video of the ‘people’ being airlifted out of the country to avoid the slaughter that took 3-5 million lives (all of the blood is on the hands of the democrats). No where will you find video of an airlift of American combat troops out of Vietnam (when the communist marched in) because there were no combat troops left in South Vietnam when the democrats surrendered. The surrender of the victory in Vietnam and the attempt to surrender the victory in Iraq have put a stain on America that will not wash off. Even the Russian troops and taunting people that the Georgian troops are running like ‘Americans’. The democrat cowards have not put the stain only on the Patriotic freedom loving Americans, they have put the stain on the entire country. The only (successful) surrenders or running from a beaten enemy in American history have came under the ‘democrats’ rule. The cowardance at the Bay of Pigs was also a democrat failure that resulted in mass slaughter and inprisonment/slavery of a population to this day. The Iranian invasion of the American Embassy and capture of American civilians (If it had happened two weeks later I would have been one of them) was a major democrat failure, thanks to Dimmy Carter. I’ve lived to see all of them and every major failure of American ‘backbone’ (showing the yellow streak) in my lifetime was a failure of the democrats.
The Russians might want to cool it with the mocking of American troops. After all, last time I checked, Afghanistan is populated with American and NATO bases, not Soviet and WP bases.