my thought too.
i was a kid and hungary scared the hell out of me.
What would happen if McCain picked Sowell as his VP?
What can we do? Stop buying their Oil? We should have listened to Patton and Churchill at the end of WWII and finished the war.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Are we prepared to accept the consequences of letting Russia take Georgia? Are we prepared to live in world if we let the buffer states fall again? How do these risks compare with those of taking on the Russians directly in Georgia?
Russia most likely will not retaliate with nukes over Georgia, but if not checked, they will continously work for our destruction. We are dealing with a Zero Sum culture that in their mind is working in their bests interests.
Sad fact but Putin made war our safest act. The Russian people deserve better.
Interesting column but of course the reason for NATO was that the US had in the 25 prior years to its formation had been sucked into two huge European wars. So if we leave defense of Europe to European again will we be yet again sucked into a European war?
More forces to Tblisi!
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If George Soros has as much power in the State Dept. as he seems to, he could have gotten the U.S. to intervene for his property.
Ouch. I agree with Sowell. We shouldn't be setting ourselves up as the defender of other country on the planet, especially when we don't have the will to go through with it. What Russia is doing to Georgia sucks, but they've effectively called our bluff.
NATO is our military's welfare handout to Europe, and is probably a large part of the reason they're fat, lazy and dying. Give the former Warsaw Pact countries a generation to forget, and they'll be spoiled too. We'd all be better off if they moved out and started taking care of themselves.
He's absolutely right, and it's gotten to the point now that our enemies know nothing is going to happen to them, or at least, not until so much time has passed that they will have had abundant notice and opportunity to prepare themselves.
As for NATO, I think it could be great: if we really meant to do more than treat it as another occasion for bloviating and empty threats. But I suspect one reason that the NATO countries are slow to move is that they are also probably uncertain of our commitment.
Iran and Russia have already learned that our commitment ranges from meaningless to non-existent, and that we are so undermined by domestic dissent that we are incapable of action in any case.
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There’s an assumption made by Sowell and a lot of us that we “need” Russia in the WOT and to help us with Iran.
I’m beginning to wonder how much Russia really is helping- and given how much military hardware they sell to Iran, do we want that kind of help?
Still- our options to affect this situation seem limited, though keeping them out of the G8 might get their attention.
Thomas Sowell for McCain’s VP!