Marco Rubio versus Rand Paul

Townhall.com ^ | December 9, 2011 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[Captain Kirk]

Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio, rising star of the Republican right, on everyone’s short list for VP, called for a unanimous vote, without debate, on a resolution directing President Obama to accept Georgia’s plan for membership in NATO at the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.

Rubio was pushing to have the U.S. Senate pressure Obama into fast-tracking Georgia into NATO, making Tbilisi an ally the United States would be obligated by treaty to go to war to defend.

Now it is impossible to believe a senator, not a year in office, dreamed this up himself. Some foreign agent of Scheunemann’s ilk had to have had a role in drafting it.

And for whose benefit is Rubio pushing to have his own countrymen committed to fight for a Georgia that, three years ago, started an unprovoked war with Russia? Who cooked up this scheme to involve Americans in future wars in the Caucasus that are none of our business?

The answer is unknown. What is known is the name of the senator who blocked it — Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, who alone stepped in and objected, defeating Rubio’s effort to get a unanimous vote.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"a Georgia that, three years ago, started an unprovoked war with Russia"

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Like when France invaded Nazi Germany.

[Mariner]

It would be a really, really DUMB idea to admit Georgia to NATO.

Only a stupid a$$ would propose it.

[BfloGuy]

a Georgia that, three years ago, started an unprovoked war with Russia

Buchanan's a fool and, come to think of it, a tool.

Ukraine "started" the war in the sense that they didn't roll over and play dead when Putin had their front-running candidate for president poisoned. I'm surprised the old isolationist hasn't endorsed Ron Paul, but he probably doesn't understand how our monetary system's screwing us over, either.