Build up: A column of Russian armoured vehicles head towards South Ossetia
Posted on 08/10/2008 1:08:32 AM PDT by Maelstorm
Build up: A column of Russian armoured vehicles head towards South Ossetia
A bloodied woman lies injured in the ruins of an apartment block in Gori after another Russian air strike
Anguish: A man cradles the body of a relative in the street after Russian planes bomb homes in Gori, killing five people
Fleeing: A boy and a woman stare in terror at the carnage from a vehicle as they are evacuated from South Ossetia
Georgian soldiers stand near a lorry evacuating local residents from Avnebi, a Georgian enclave near Tskhinvali, in the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia
Devastation: A Georgian tank burns after fierce fighting
Georgian policemen evacuate a Georgian soldier, wounded in battle
Casualties: People examine a list of wounded
Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili speaking to a patient as he visits a military hospital in the town of Gori yesterday
Welcome: A man greets Georgian troops moving into Tskhinvali
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Please post more pics.
We are not going head to head with Russia. Put it out of your mind. Georgia will lose this one.
What do you suggest - nuke Moscow?
Are you asking that question of Thomas Jefferson or anyone that is in favor of joining you in foreign entanglements?
General Patton pointed out many decades ago that we will eventually have to fight them. What choice are they gonna give us ?
Of course we shouldn’t pretend it isn’t happening.
But look at the stupid things we did in the Balkans!
Can you blame the Russians for believing we can’t stop them, and that they have the right to go in there and muck around? And where are the Europeans, huh? This is an oil pipeline that benefits them directly. They should be at the forefront too. I suppose the Euroweenies are hiding under their beds.
With the Iraq liberation drawing to its close, I guess we can move north and kick some Russian ass!
We are no longer the world's sole policeman.
We are broke, we cannot afford it as a nation anymore.
Lets win in Iraq and Afghanistan first. Force others to pay their share, too, if we go in there. And we never go into any nation now to fight, at least in my mind, without a solid Congressional Declaration of War.
Do you suggest we declare war on Moscow?
Unfortunately, the Russians/Persians have the initiative. In the present scenario we will end up going where they take us and right now it looks like war over the oil fields in the Middle East and the Caucasus. We just lost the Caucasus to the Russians.
bkmark
Not a Bible Scholar myself. But if one just looks at just the conventional aspects of everything, things have looked much worse in the past. The Fall of Rome, the rise of Islam, the invasion of the Mongols, World War I and World War II. The major difference this time is the non-conventional aspects. Nuclear Weapons. Imagine nuclear weapons in the hands of the enemies of our past. That is the new threat we face now. Looks like the genie is out of the bottle.
If I understand it, this pipeline is their "jugular"...so where is the great lot of EU putosas right now on this?!?
Make critical supplies available and sell arms to Georgia? In a heartbeat. Send men to bleed? FOR THE EU?!? I'm sorry, after Iraq we should be deploying our dearest to their homes and families or the nearest bar first.
The socialists in the EU had an opportunity to get some experience in Iraq, let's see who made some use of it.
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Agreed.
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