Posted on 08/16/2008 11:01:26 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
Ping.
It`s what we`ve been saying from the get-go.
Ship tons of MANPADS and TOWs to the Georgians.
I wonder if Putin has to be disappointed too that the price of oil has declined, not spiked, following the invasion.
How about keeping it low tech? For example, captured Iranian EFP IEDs, etc.
The Georgian veterans of Iraq may have learned much about those weapons.
Is there time to supply them? What if Russian amrmor makes a move on Tiblisi? Does anyone think the US could deploy air power (lots within striking distance) to take out the Russian armor?
Yah, let’s stockpile our latest and best stuff in Georgia for the Ruskies to liberate.
This might work if the Russians fight like wimps, but if they decide to level the cities - the cities will be leveled....from 30,000 feet. To stop that you need Real SAMs and F-15s.
The question right now is what will America risk over Georgia instead of, if we had proper leadership in this country, what will Russia risk.
The biggest worry shouldn’t be US worrying about how to respond - the biggest worry should be the Russian’s worrying about what the US response is going to do to them.
In fact if that worry had been big enough the Russians would not have moved in at all.
We need a much bigger powerful military supported by a draft. A volunteer force is great against enemies like Panama Grenada Iraq Yugoslavia but it won’t be strong enough for China or Russia.
Or maybe Georgia is at fault...either way the U.S. military is too small to wage a big war.
Conveniently liberated by the Russians, then smuggled to a willing jihadi sleeper cell over here? Then who will be blamed? Bush, not Putin.
What alternate universe is this guy living in?
In the real world, the Russians took only minutes to smash the Georgian military and send them fleeing. Now he wants Georgia to try again?
That’s like telling the Iraqi Republican Guard that they’d be able to defeat the US military the second time around as long as they have a few SAMs available.
Not going to happen in this reality, perhaps there are some alternate realities available to this writer through the powerful drugs he’s taking.
Look at what the insurgency did to us. If Kerry won in 2004, the IRG would have won.
The problem with this idea is the Russians are not civilized. They will have no problem killing every civilian in Georgia. Is that a price Georgians want to pay for their freedom? We should have supplied them with modern weapons before the Russians invaded. Better late than never though.
If the Russians do honor the cease fire and pull back, we should supply the Georgians with these weapons and then blow up the tunnel. That would make supplying Ossedia much harder and expensive.
What did they do -- blow up a few bombs? Militarily the "insurgency" compared to the US Military was never more than a flea compared to an elephant. President Bush had the political will to demonstrate that fact, but it was always the objective reality, no matter who won the 2004 election.
The same is true in Georgia, only more so. Unlike the US in Iraq, Russia is fighting on their own doorstep. The "insurgents" in this case are pro-Russian. The Ossetians want to be part of Russia, not Georgia.
So you want to send weapons to Georgia so that they can fight the Russian military and the native population of Ossetians? And why is this something other than madness?
No, the Ossetians who are not slavic,or Christian, but muslem, with a linguistic tie to Albainian want to be part of a Ossetian national group North Ossetia in Russia. The Georgian part of Ossetia (south Ossetia) held a plebisite and voted to join with the Russian part. And their effort was being put down by the Georgian government.They do not consider themselves “Russians” per se but “Ossetians” extending into a Ossetian AR (associated state). To them the Russian passport is nothing more than a piece of paper. Abkazia was a different problem, and was invaded by the Russians because of oil.
The MSM keeps repeating the Russian position .The irony is a greater Ossetia could be a problem for the Ruskys
What can be done ping.
How about nuke moscow.
I’m with you in spirit.
The President says that Russia must leave ALL Georgian territory. They’re not so arming Georgia has to be the next option. Arm them up and blow the Roki tunnel and the rail line into Abkhazia. Give the Russians no retreat and let Georgia wipe them out.
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