Posted on 08/13/2008 3:34:05 PM PDT by kronos77
Yes indeed
Put it up on YouTube then make a thread. I guess put a profanity disclaimer.
“Islam has to be obliterated if modern society is to survive, and we have to gather the strength to get’er dun.”
Yup.
This from anyone is Israel is a joke.
What did they accomplish in Lebanon. NOTHING!
Love it! No friggin' doubt that they'd kick the Russkies out too!
Semper Fi.
Fred Thompson is on with Mark Levin making the same statement.
Russia won and we lost.
Levin had other thoughts on the matter but did not press the issue with his friend Fred.
Yes, you think we'll have to fight our way in?
Some times all you can do is talk though and make a symbolic show of force. That sticks in your craw, so you make plans for next time.
Only is a strong word. Russia obviously views it as a shattering of the Russian sphere of influence. According to Michael Totten, the Kosovars themselves appear to despise the Wahhabis and the contempt is mutual. What some people are overlooking is that since the crumbling of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century, the principal threat to the English-speaking world (ABCA - America, Britain, Canada, Australia) has not been Islam. Imperial Russia's never-ending attempts at territorial expansion have been met repeatedly by European and American rebuffs before, during and after Communist rule. The threat from Islam is negligible compared to the threat from China or Russia.
Interesting comment, because that is essentially what we are doing. We are launching a military aid mission over the protestation of Russia into a war zone that they control.
This makes that war zone a very dangerous place for them, and we have soured the milk so to speak.
To avoid a direct confrontation, they will have to withdraw back to the North and this opens the country back up.
If they don't, accidents are likely to occur, and one will be enough.
The end game is that we did not back down and we went in at our own risk to help a friend. If no shots are fired, then that's a good thing. If they want to play, we have asset nearby and they know it, and now they are wondering if we will really follow through, because they cannot be sure with Bush.
Invading a country of 4 million people. I mean honestly, we used to worry about the Soviets rolling the Central Plains of Europe in 3 days from Russia to the coast of France.
Outside of ICBM’s which are checked with our ICBM’s, Russia is a failing power that degrades further by the year. This is an inconsequential lashing out that needs to be responded to, but not taken too seriously. They are not rolling up the Central Plains any time soon. They also will not take Georgia...the price would be a Cold War they cannot win.
They are not interested in taking just Georgia. They want to start by getting them all back into the fold and ejecting out form of democracy. That's what is killing them.
This is essentially a act of desperation, and they are holding on, but with a time limit. They need to get democracy off their doorsteps.
Anybody see Code Pink or ANSWER or Cindy Sheehan protesting in front of the russian embassy?
Move 2,000 US Marines on either side of the pipeline and make a splash about it. The Russians will wilt like week old roses.
You don't understand, we don't have the money to fund our own government. We desperately need money from Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, and Japan to meet our existing obligations let alone starting another war. The US economy is in sad, sad shape. Why do you thing the Treasury Secretary is going to China every other week to beg for money?
The interesting thing to me is that if they would have embraced democracy and liberty and kept a free press, they could have been accepted by all of the Western world. The final unifying principle could have been fighting radical Islam.
But instead they play the failing game of opposing the US at every step as if they could win that game. Look at them. A literal and miserable failure. The whole Warsaw Bloc gone and the strong members in NATO (EGermany, Poland, Czech,Hungary)...and hardly any of the former Republics of the old empire of the Soviets wants to ally with the losers, Russia.
“Georgia will fall followed by Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria.”
I haven’t kept up with Romania and Bulgaria. But I will gaurantee you that Russia will not militarily defeat the Ukraine. The reason is that it would be too high a cost in lives and equipment. I would stake a year’s pay that Ukraine will not fall.
Georgia could simply because it is so small and only has 4 million people. They could blitz right through it. But the long term cost would be immediate emergency Nato membership for Ukraine. Booted out of the G7. Covert ops all over peripheral Russia including islamics. Iran’s nuke’s bombed and more aggresive actions diplomatically and economically against Russia. They can’t defeat the West, they are a desperate lashing out former power.
It should come from a USAF base in Turkey.
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