Posted on 08/12/2008 5:39:13 AM PDT by Tolik
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...Russian tanks, heavy artillery, strategic bombers, ballistic missiles and a naval blockade batter a European nation. We are not past such things after all. The end of history will be postponed, again.
Russia supports two provinces determined to secede from Georgia. Russia, with aspiring nations within its borders, generally opposes secessionists, as it did when America, which sometimes opposes secession (e.g., 1861-65), improvidently supported Kosovo's secession from Russia's ally Serbia. But Russia's aggression is really about the subordination of Georgia, a democratic, market-oriented U.S. ally. This is the recrudescence of Russia's dominance in what it calls the "near abroad." Ukraine, another nation guilty of being provocatively democratic near Russia, should tremble because there is not much America can do. It is a bystander at the bullying of an ally that might be about to undergo regime change.
...This crisis illustrates, redundantly, the paralysis of the U.N. regarding major powers, hence regarding major events, and the fictitiousness of the European Union regarding foreign policy.
...John McCain, the "life is real, life is earnest" candidate, says he has looked into Putin's eyes and seen "a K, a G and a B." But McCain owes the thug thanks, as does America's electorate. Putin has abruptly pulled the presidential campaign up from preoccupation with plumbing the shallows of John Edwards and wondering what "catharsis" is "owed" to disappointed Clintonites.
McCain, who has called upon Russia "to immediately and unconditionally ... withdraw all forces from sovereign Georgian territory," favors expelling Russia from the G-8, and organizing a league of democracies to act where the U.N. is impotent, which is whenever the subject is important.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
If the Dems block this at this point, all hyperbole aside, they are nothing less than treasonous.
Sounds good. I am all for the League of Democracies.
That’s all we need - another supra-national bureaucracy overseeing the affairs of otherwise-sovereign states. (Why is it that our elected leaders always want to turn this country over to anybody but Americans?!)
I prefer American sovereignty. If we need allies and treaties, fine, we can handle those according to OUR Constitution, not the constitution of some “league of democracies”.
Yes, see also link here:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/05/mccains-league-of-democracies-good-idea.html
Not a bad idea but good luck getting the European democracies to agree to take decisive action against a primary energy supplier with superior will. And speaking of Will I watched the 1934 Nazi party congress recently and was also struck that if you take away the technological gloss, Beijing may as well have been Nuremburg.
Yeah, like supply their troops with something more substantial than summer uniforms and maintain a supply train. Barbarossa was seriously screwed up. The Germans should have succeeded.
Winter is Russia's ace in the hole now because they basically control Europe's natural gas supplies. Western Europe has no taste for spending winter in the cold and dark.
You make an excellent point. The problem is, we keep trying to act like it is a serious venue. We keep trying to "make the UN work" when as you suggest we ought to treat it like the charade it is, and as the rest of the world treats it.
Wills busts Richardson for failing to realize Russia has a veto in the Security Council—ah, the Crisco Kid can’t grasp the evil in players like Chia Head.
I’m for US sovereignty too. At the same time, a body of a hundred free nations could counter the madness being spewed by the UN, not to mention the other UN problems. For those who don’t know, the UN was founded by Soveit spy— Alger Hiss [one of Truman’s ideas— even after being warned that Hiss was a spy].
But aren’t you’re merely trading one supra-national bureacracy for another?
In my judgment, the United States has obligations belonging to no other nation on Earth. To subject the fulfilling of those obligations to approval of any “council of nations” is to renege our duties - in principal, and quite often in fact.
Why, for instance, should we await the U.N.’s approval before protecting our country? Or why should we await approval of a “League of Democracies” before freeing a people from tyrannical butchers?
We need to do what is right regardless of other nations’ opinions of us. We ought to be ignoring the U.N., not replacing it.
“But aren’t you’re merely trading one supra-national bureacracy for another?”
I share your sentiment. At the same time, I’m glad to see that McCain is not some pro-UN patsy. I think there is a good man inside there, who will not be as easily gulled as I had first thought.
As Hannity says, we can have a ‘seat at the table’. We can express our concerns about our Constitutional rights, etc, and attempt to influence him on this and other decisions. It will mean a lot of vigilance and defeats, but at least it’s better than having Justice Ginsberg announce that the “UN cops are coming tomorrow.”
Sooner or later a miscalculation will occur and we will deal with the horrific again.
“The problem is, we keep trying to act like it is a serious venue. We keep trying to “make the UN work” when as you suggest we ought to treat it like the charade it is, and as the rest of the world treats it.”
AND continue to throw many of our taxpayer dollars down a counterproductive rathole. Why are we using any deficit spending at all to pay UN dues? Let the UN run the deficit!
Rant over.
I've had it figured for a few years that our next president will be a war president. Not some little media driven play in an obscure Middle East country, but life threatening, national identity changing, our very future endangered WAR.
Nothing I'm seeing recently is changing my mind about it either.
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