[library user]

Here we go...

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

We and the world needs this like a hole in the head.

[randomhero97]

Well, given the choice of conventional bombing or a surgical nuclear strike I’m sure Djimali would go with option A.

[fish hawk]

If Ronald Reagan was President right now, we would be already over there helping them. All it takes is for us to show up armed and ready to go all out and Russia would back down. They have been nothing but bluff, as history has shown, from the time Kruchev pounded his shoe on the desk and said “We will bury you” until the present day. Yes they are a strong country but they know beyond a doubt they could never out due the greatest country in the world.

[DoughtyOne]

You knew this was coming. I’ll bet the Times Online has an open channel to all sorts of Georgians.

When we assisted with those military exercises last week, I’ll bet we warned the Georgians not to escalate the fighting in South Odessa.

Well, here we are. As much as I don’t like what is going on over there, it would be ridiculous for us to become entangled in the mess.

[SolidWood]

They are right. I understand why we can’t help the to the extent they need. All I can offer to our lonely Georgian friends is my prayers. God be with them. It’s sickening.

[lookout88]

Yeah, here we go is right. This is not going to end nicely

[B Knotts]

If we just give HitlPutin the SudetenSouth Ossetia, he'll stop his aggression, and we can have peace in our time.

[Drango]

Let’s pray for peace. Starting (continuing?) a war in Georgia, is not in the best interest of the US.

[Jeff Head]

Putin is shrewd and ruthless and is counting on us being afraid to help those who have helped us.

Bush agree to use US Air Force jets to fly the Georgian Iraq based troops back to Georgia and upped the ante some. I hope we allow those troops to disembark with a whole lot of goodies...including a lot of Javelin anti-tank missiles.

I also hope those aircraft go in with significant US fighter escort.

We need to help the Gergians bloody the Russian nose badly, as best we can and hopefull thwart a take over of the whole of Georgia.

I do not expect however to see direct US involvement unless the Russians foolishly tried to shoot down US aircraft or attack and kill our trainers over there. In any case the logistics of our inserting and maintiaing a major force there are huge...and Putin knows it.

The Ukraine announcing today that they would not allow Russain war ships bnack to their home port of Sevatapol (which is Ukraine territoty) is also a good move., We need to see a lot more of that directed at Russia.

with thisas a back drop, hopefully most Americans will weigh very heavily and carefully who they choose to put at the helm of this nation and face such individuals as Putin.

CHOOSING THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES




NOBAMA MOVEMENT SPREADS ACROSS THE NATION

[flyfree]

“The Georgians told them, ‘We’re done. Let us withdraw,” one American military official said. “But the Russians are not letting them withdraw. They are pursuing them, and people are seeing this.”

The official said that it appeared that the Kremlin’s objectives, at a minimum, had extended beyond securing the enclaves and now included the destruction of the Georgian armed forces, with an aim of intensifying the domestic pressure on Saakashvili.

“The Russians have gained all of their military objectives,” the American official said. “This is not about military objectives. This is about a political objective — removing a thorn in their side.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/world/europe/11georgia.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[MarMema]

Bush is helping them, it’s just not public. He said just after being there that it was his favorite country ever, of those he had visited.

[Finalapproach29er]

Loyalty is a one-way street with the bush family. imho

Tough break guys.

[Gay State Conservative]

It's completely reasonable for good allies of the West (a title that Georgia deserves) to ask for...and expect....help.Particularly in a situation like this.But short of going to war with Russia,what can we do?

[rrrod]

The American spirit is and will be to help our friends...stay tuned.

[driftdiver]

If we were helping then they’d condemn us for interference.

[ought-six]

What we need to do is have a sit-down with Russia, off the record, and tell them everything has to return to the status quo of August 1, 2008. This could be a Munich moment for the West, as the similarities between this and the Sudetenland in 1938 are frighteningly clear. In so many ways Russia is in the same position as Germany was in 1938, and so, unfortunately, is the West with its 1938 counterpart. Germany, by its own admission, would have backed down in 1938 in the face of a strong reaction from the West. Russia, I believe, would react similarly today in the face of a strong reaction (and that reaction does not have to be military, but it does have to be UNITED). The West, aside form some verbal admonishments, will do nothing. And so the story goes. Again.

[Norman Bates]

Aren’t we transporting Georgia’s troops back from Iraq?

[Navy Patriot]

Dear Georgia,

It was kind of you to inquire as to the possibility that the United States might help you end your current predicament.

I would like to refer you to the expertise of the following knowledgeable persons: Chiang Kai-shek, The People of North and South Korea, The People of Cuba, The Republic of South Vietnam, Cambodia, The Shaw of Iran, The people of Nicaragua, The Iraqi rebels and Kurds during Desert Storm, and Serbia.

Regards, the Democrat Party USA

Achieving peace through surrender for 63 years.

[KantianBurke]

“Why won’t America and Nato help us?”

For the same reason we didn’t assist Hungary or the Czechs when a thermonuclear military giant invaded them.

[Nik Naym]

“As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they won’t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?””

Know what?

He is right. We owe them. I am ashamed of how we are (are not) handling this.