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Ironically using the right analogy for the crisis in Georgia
Robert Kagan has used Munich to describe the ineffectiveness of the Americans during the current crisis in Georgia. Ironically this is the right analogy because the British and French resorted toward appeasement because they lacked a security aggreement with Russia. If the British and the French dropped their anti-Russian or anti-Communist views and developed a security pact with the Soviet Union in the early nineteen thirites, Hitler would have been deterred from attacking Czechsolvakia. The United States, like Britain and France in the thirties, needs Russian assistance to deal with Iran and Afghanistan, but we are still stuck with the anti-Russian prejudice from the Cold War.
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I am not really the conspiracy theorist type but I feel that there has to be some significance to the fact that Georgia started this recent action and the fact that McCain has ties to Georgia via his lobbyist. The fact that this set him up to 'posture' with regard to the situation with his 'today we are all Georgians' bs which I am sure was supposed to help him with his campaign and it worked a bit (which is infuriating)
Re: we are all Georgians... I was thinking well something else like 'oh, so Georgia like the US has some morons running their so called 'democracy' getting into military messes' and in that sense I certainly can feel empathy for the Georgian people. I question the intelligence/competence of the Georgian president and his adminstration. If someone made the slightest advance against us would Bush Cheney not have blown their country off the map by now damn NATO and anyone who stood in their way? The hypocracy is not funny.
August 24, 2008 3:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
John,
Can you think how Russia's inclusion in NATO would have worked to the latter's disadvantage?
August 24, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
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