Posted on 03/26/2014 7:40:20 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
KP: You are arguing that Ukraine ... should respond with strength to Russian aggression. What do you think Ukraine ... should do to keep Putin out of Ukraine?
Where Ukraine is concerned, Carlyle’s dictum deserves repeating for the umpteenth time: ‘If I am not for myself, who will be for me?’ As an outsider, I am baffled by the authorities’ failure to formally declare that a state of war exists. The Armed Forces and the country need to hear this. Ukraine has been attacked and invaded. Its assets and military bases have been seized, centres of power have been occupied, and its navy has been destroyed. Although the new authorities are becoming more decisive, there still is a perilous lack of clarity. To this day, I’m not sure that soldiers and their commanders know what is expected of them. Here, I am the first to agree that the West has not helped. It is time we stopped praising Ukraine for ‘exercising restraint’. Our message must be: ‘Ukraine has the right and obligation to defend its armed forces, its citizens and its territory, and in this it can count on our full support.’ Hesitation in Ukraine reinforces hesitation in the West and vice versa. Those who say, in so many words, ‘we should not be focusing on Crimea, only on the elections’ are doing untold damage to the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at kyivpost.com ...
Pooty and 52% of the American electorate.
The moral imperative is that if we do not hold up our end of a Security Assurance that resulted in the Ukraine giving up 5000 nukes, the logical fallout eventually results in a whole bunch of radioactive fallout. Whether we catch it (much less the other effects) depends on “where” and the prevailing winds.
However, as a people proven to be dishonorable, short sighted, and deadly foolish, perhaps it is deserved. God smote Sodom and Gomorrah for not much worse.
Carlyle??? I'm thinkin', What am I? Losing my mind?
But here it is : Rabbi Hillel ... "If I am not for myself, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am 'I'? And if not now, then when?"
Commies just love to label their enemies as Nazis.
Putler has an 80% approval rating among his Russian serfs.
Obama has a 40% approval rating among Americans.
Americans have learned their lesson.
Neither do some of the posters around here.
Don’t compare a bunch of Muslim Brotherhood fanatics to the freedom fighters of Ukraine. Muslims are about as freedom-loving as Putler’s Russian serfs.
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