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Silence on Georgia
Toledo Blade ^ | August 16, 2008 | Jack Kelly

Posted on 08/16/2008 7:08:16 AM PDT by elhombrelibre

DID YOU see the huge crowd outside the Russian embassy protesting the war in Georgia?

Neither did I. Now that we have a genuine war of aggression, the silence on the Left is deafening.

"You might think, at a moment such as this, that the moral calculus would be pretty well understood," the Washington Post said in an editorial Thursday. "Russian troops are occupying large swaths of Georgia, a tiny neighboring country, and sacking its military bases. Russian jets have roamed the Georgian skies, bombing civilian and military targets alike. Russian ships are said to be controlling Georgia's port of Poti, while militia under Russia's control reportedly massacre Georgian civilians. Yet in Washington, the foreign policy sophisticates cluck and murmur that, after all, the Georgians should have known better than to chart an independent course."

(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: georgia; russiantroops
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To: dixiechick2000

It seems like every crisis brings out a Mr. Sheer type who try to figure out how to blame America, or Bush as it’s been the last 8 years. Strange ducks. They don’t know there are other reasons why things happen in the world.


61 posted on 08/17/2008 12:00:20 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Obama: vain, mercurial, inexperienced, aloof, condescending, doctrinaire, and Reverend Wright's son.)
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To: elhombrelibre
Georgia's mistake was to take the bait.

I believe Russian armor was through the Roki Pass before Georgia fired a shot.

62 posted on 08/17/2008 12:03:24 AM PDT by Royal Wulff
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