Posted on 12/09/2014 8:25:01 AM PST by Kaslin
The asleep-at-the-wheel congress has no idea whatsup in Russia let alone anywhere outside the beltway.
Sorry, but the use of the term “phobic” identifies (to me, at least) the person using it as being one to whom we should pay absolutely no attention whatsoever.
When you’re quoting Ron Paul in the third sentence, you’re doing it wrong.
Pat Buchanan is now dead to me.
I hope Pat is getting a good stipend from Putin.
He is pro Putin and anti-Israel. Pat’s got a weird pro-authoritarian streak that takes him off the reservation as a decent sort of chap. Lots of people, but not all of his critics, think it’s because of the Uncle he lost during the Holocaust. He got drunk and fell out of a guard tower.
Wait, I didn't see one mention of Afghanistan in there?
5.56mm
Great line! and dead-on, to be sure.
This seems like a good thread on which to remind FReepers of the 2008 Quiz on World Affairs from my blog:
With the end of the Cold War, a Communist country, which had been organized along federal lines into constituent republics, dissolves into those republics, with each becoming a sovereign nation. In one of those republics, there is a province in which (partly due to population shifts during and just before the Communist era) the majority of the population is ethnically distinct from the now-independent republic. In that province there is a strong separatist movement engaged in an armed insurrection that has taken effective control of much of the province. As a result, the province has not participated in the parliamentary elections that elected the national government of the republic.
The premier of the republic orders military action to retake control of the province, which is, under international law, a part of the now-sovereign republic. In the press of a great military power (which, incidentally, has unfriendly relations with the democratically elected government of the republic due to its close ties to another great military power), there are breathless (false) reports of genocide being carried out as part of the attempt to reassert sovereignty over the province. The great power, without U.N. sanction and without taking care to avoid targetting civilian targets, launches a military campaign which strikes target throughout the republic, and is which it describes as a ‘humanitarian intervention’. The other great power, which was friendly to the government of the republic, protests and sends logistical support to the futile resistance by the republic’s government.
1. The great power launching the military strike on behalf of the separatists is
A. The United States
B. Russia
C. not enough information is provided
2. The republic fighting the separatists is
A. Georgia
B. Serbia
C. not enough information is provided
3. The separatists are
A. mostly Christian Ossetians
B. mostly Muslim Albanians
C. not enough information is provided
4. The year when this takes place is
A. 1999
B. 2008
C. not enough information is provided
The correct answer in each case is, of course, C.
Pat Buchanan rewriting history
Pat Buchanan accuses the House of propaganda straight from the cold war while totally ignoring all of Putin’s Leninist rhetoric from the last few years.
I stopped paying serious attention to Pat Buchanan a long time ago. Anyone who writes that Winston Churchill was responsible for the Second World War is a loon. I only stopped by this screed out of the same curiosity I have when passing a car wreck or when seeing two guys in a fight outside a sports bar.
Why is Chechnya not one of the choices, it so easily fits the questions.
It’s similar, but notice my long accumulation of details, all of which apply to both the U.S. intervention in Serbia and the Russian intervention in Georgia. A lot of those are different in the case of Chechenya — blessedly we don’t have a real analogue of Chechenya.
Sadly we, FRs, and the people's house, more than Obama, are phobic in unwarranted bigoted hatred of Russia.
Buchanan, Ron and Rand have it right, the rest are drinking the coolade the neocon MSM has been peddling for years.
Forgive them, they know not what they doing, will be the reason we fail in defeating the Islamists.
Has Buchanan renounced his US Citzienship yet?
Lord Pat-Paw.
Pat is wasting his time. The neocons want war. Because patriotism. Or something.
Hitler was.
Now that there is funny. Speaking of Koolaide . . . .
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