[swamprebel]

Following your logic, allowing Russia to take eastern Ukraine and Crimea, What would happen if tomorrow Putin took Poland, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia (a Mediterranean port), Greece and Hungary? Would it still be a non issue for America? After seeing the US stand by, would Free Europe turn to China for protection? And speaking of China, who has ratcheted up it's Asian ambitions, would they annex Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. Why not, if Putin gets away with it?

Soon isolationism leads to occupying a very small island, while the rest of the world runs amok. Isolationism is the bedrock of Obama’s philosophy. The world abhors a vacuum, and when America pulls out, something worse always rushes in.

[Travis McGee]

Actually, Russia is “retaking” Crimea. Crimea was Russian throughout history until 1954.

If native Hawaiian activists stormed some govt buildings in Oahu and demanded the US Navy leave Pearl Harbor, do you think we would comply?

Or would we reinforce Pearl Harbor?

[VanDeKoik]

Seriously?

With what army or navy is Putin going to invade and occupy the whole of eastern Europe?

At best we have them in the Crimea, around their already existing military base at the request of this friendly ethnic Russian majority that has all but seceded from the rest of the Ukraine, that is in a civil war, and you have them marching practically into Vienna if we dont what?

If you are looking for a shooting war over this with Russia, then you need to snap out of it.

[mac_truck]

The world abhors a vacuum, and when America pulls out, something worse always rushes in.

Now that's a pretty good argument for NOT going in the first place, don't you think?