Posted on 05/31/2007 10:38:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Our arsenal would have a much higher percentage of tanks and strategic bombers for one surely. ; )
I can just imagine her reaction to your statement if presented to her personally.
"No! I wanna go, I wanna go, I wanna go!"
You make it sound as if pc'ing ourselves to death is future tense. I, sir, would submit to you that it would better be stated as past tense.
I of course voted for George W. Bush in both elections, but I am both appalled and aghast at the fact that this administration has not done nearly enough to lead in the area of public perception for foreign and domestic affairs.
The President has recently been in public giving speeches, but it may be too little too late. Where has President Bush been for the past two years? I remember when presidents used to address the nation with some regularity. When is the last time the President Bush addressed the nation?
It is frustrating that the President has allowed his critics unchallenged command the public platform and that he has not used the bully pulpit for nary any advantage. In that regard it seems he has wasted much of his political capital and appears destined to run out the clock for the next 18 or so months. It ought not be that way.
I thought Russia was broke and couldn’t evev pay their military. Seems a little economic imperialism is in order.
I can't lie, for we aren't dead yet....
Bombs away with Curtis Lemay.
If you want a real eye-opener, do an internet search on the background of a group called the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (they used to be called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, and I suspect they changed the name when they started to get some unfavorable attention after the Beslan massacre). ACPC has actually sided with the Chechen separatists against the Russian government, and the group's membership list includes a bunch of familiar names from various positions of influence in and out of the U.S. government over the last 10-15 years.
Elliott Abrams
Kenneth Adelman
Bulent Ali-Reza
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Eliot Cohen
Midge Decter
Geraldine A. Ferraro
Frank Gaffney
Richard Gere
Douglas Ginsburg
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Robert Kagan
Max M. Kampelman
Thomas Kean
William Kristol
Michael A. Ledeen
Robert McFarlane
William Odom
P.J. O'Rourke
Richard Perle
Richard Pipes
Norman Podhoretz
Stephen J. Solarz
George Weigel
Caspar Weinberger
R. James Woolsey
I'm not so sure about that. See #29.
AFAICS, the majority of the names on that list are unrepentant Leftists/Socialists. It’s hardly fair for Putin to come down hard on the GWB White House for the activities of a meddlesome group of has-beens, if that’s what he’s doing.
While no closet Stalinist, I think I’m safe in making the claim that Soviet Russians bore the brunt of German military might in WWII to the tune of 30 million civilian and military casualties. If anything, Field Marshal Zhukov’s ‘Always Attack’ dictum kept the heat off the Western Front, saving countless Allied lives. Your statement has no historical validity. The Russians are not the French.
Insofar as Putin’s aggressive, anti-American agitprop is concerned, Putin knows that even the finished American missile defense shield is not intended to ward off an all-out ICBM strike by a first-rate (or even second-rate) military power. He’s making nationalistic noise to divert the Russian people from a corrupt, increasingly authoritarian domestic policy. Another Russian journalist thrown from a balcony or shot in the head? Kasparov and other anti-Putin activists thrown in jail? Rattle the saber at the Americans.
hmmmm..
Without our intervention and support in the European theater, are you both of the belief that an unfettered Germany would have eventually been defeated by the Soviet regime and European forces?
If we had chosen not to provide the British and the Soviets with supplies and military assistance via a push from the other end of the European continent, would you still be of the opinion that the Soviets and the allies would have still prevailed?
Interesting. Thanks for your comments.
Which ABM treaty? The one we withdrew from?
Thanks
Absolutely.. Stalingrad was the turing point for the war with Germany.
Without our "supplies" and involvement, they would likely have suffered another million casualties and the war in Europe would have taken another year or 2, but Russia would have sacrificed another 20 or 50 million if that is what it would taken to beat Germany.
Germany was beaten before the allies hit the beaches in Normandy - it was only a question of time.
Agreed. You nail him.
And our worthless State Dept. doesn't call his fulminations...and saber-rattling... for what they are...an attempt at totalitarian intimidation and bullying of free republics.
With the exception of Perle, a singularly distinguished and impressive list of “members”. How do we join up?
I’ll meet ya halfway, how’s that, which is what the Soviet forces did. ;-)
Operation Barbarossa wasn’t exactly a stellar success either.
I just find it incredibly strange that the US is once again and always has been seen as the enemy by those very people whose rights to exist we also fought and sacrificed so many good men and women for.
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