Ask serious questions about crisis in Georgia
In an Aug. 14 column in the News & Record, “Hey Vladimir, you’ve got mail,” Kathleen Parker imagines three letters written to Putin by President Bush, Sen. Barack Obama, and Sen. John McCain. The letters from Bush were foolish and conciliatory; the letter from McCain said only, “Don’t make me come over there.”
Instead of wasting space on silliness, Parker should have raised questions that need answers. Should the people of Ossetia and Abkhazia be forced to be Georgians? One of McCain’s top foreign advisors until recently was a lobbyist for Georgia; Karl Rove has met with the presidents of the Ukraine and Georgia and McCain refers to Mikheil Saakashvili as “my dear friend.”
So, was the Georgian government encouraged to get tough with Ossetia at this time?
If McCain does go “over there,” is he going alone? With our country bankrupt and our military stretched thin, does McCain have anything but bluster to answer Russian aggression?
Pat Johnson
Jamestown
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Since you are so hot on getting answers to questions, Pat, what's your thoughts on how to deal with Russian aggression? Do you subscribe to the school of "talking to them" as they roll their Russian tanks over your dead body?
Posted on September 1, 2008 9:08 AM
Ossetia had no military targets hit by the Georgian Bush/Israeli puppet army. All the targets were civilian and 95% of casualties in Ossetia were civilian. If McCain wants to take a bullet for an Ossetian or a Stalinist Georgian, may he proceed with the blessings of the Baby Rambo Jesus. Any other do-gooder fixer-upper should do the same as thousands of Amerikans became directly involved in the fascist/socialist Spanish Civil War and pre-US meddling in WW I. Stop Russian aggression with your own purse as Bush the Dimmer re-escalates Cold War I by pointing missles at Russia from their border. The US didnt like Russian missles being as close as Cuba. The Russian people have a very good memory of being invaded by every Western nation with a White Man's Burden and giving Stalin everything he wanted after wwII. This burden has now become DC's burden. Good luck convincing the Russians that you point the missles at them in peace and with the best intentions.
Posted on September 1, 2008 10:13 AM