Americans Want to Pull Back From World Stage, Poll Finds
Posted on 04/30/2014 2:10:56 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Saying President Barack Obama hasn’t been tough enough on Russia, a high-powered group of Republican senators introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at imposing new sanctions on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.
“Rather than react to events as they unfold, which has been the policy of this administration, we need to inflict more direct consequences on Russia prior to Vladimir Putin taking additional steps that will be very difficult to undo,” said Bob Corker of Tennessee, the top GOP member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who drafted the measure.
The congressional push for a harder line on Russia comes with Obama set to welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of his key partners on Ukraine, to the White House on Friday.
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Useless gesture.
Why are Republicans banging the drums?
Let Obama own it - tell everyone we are waiting for HIS proposed solutions.
The world behaves like a welfare state because we treat them like it. Maybe its time for a reminder of what the world was like without us.
Senators,
Can you name the two young men that were killed yesterday in Afghanistan? No? Then tread carefully before you get America committed to losing more of its young men an women.
First off, there is no such thing. Its an oxymoron if there ever was one.
And second, even if there was, it would be the best of the worst.
Americans Want to Pull Back From World Stage, Poll Finds
Why are Republicans banging the drums?
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Because they are the Stupid Party. But you’re absolutely right. They should stay out of it; let Obama own this fiasco. He favored the “reset”; just sit back and watch him try to extricate himself from the quicksand he’s in now.
Current level plus “more active” equals 49. Less active equals 47, and 3 percent are goobers with no opinion.
I personally think we should concern ourselves more with our own hemisphere.
Less than, but close to a majority.
take your age. Now subtract your age. That’s how many ****s I give about the Ukraine.
We should be doing something, had we acted in 1939 history would have been much different. However, with this “commander in chief” if we do act it will be to help the wrong side.
Russia is not Iraq and will not be conquered in 27 days!
We need to rest and rebuild.
Much of our equipment is worn out and needs replacement/repair and many of our men are tired.
Ukraine is nowhere near the top 10 security interests of the USA.
Bob Corker used to be considered conservative, but recently he seems to have turned into a RINO jerk.
What? I’m talking about Real Americans.
kinda joke..
Agreed.
Careful there. In 1914 World War I started because the Great Powers just had to do something. That war would have been avoided if the Great Powers would have just kept out the Austrian-Serbian crisis.
So is the current Russian-Ukrainian situation more like 1939 (action needed) or more like 1914 (stay out of it)? I vote for 1914.
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