Posted on 08/24/2008 3:30:09 PM PDT by Bokababe
— then we completely dropped the ball in dealing with Russia.
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Because we lost the last real American President that cared about his country as his first priority. He cared about America, its founding principles of freedom and liberty for the individual, reduced and controlled government and the sanctity of our beloved Constitution.
He was a 100 year man, and I think it will be a long time, accompanied by much pain, before America has another one and a public that even looks at its government....
That's enough. I can't read any more. It's pure drivel. What the writer intends to say may or may not make some sense, but since he's a lunatic, I've no interest in it.
You couldn't be more right about that.
I'm so used to mentally deleted pieces of articles in order to read them, that I presuppose that everyone else does, too.
Who is this guy and why should we care what he thinks about anything? His over stereotypical use of the term “neocon” is never supported in this piece.
wow!
copacetic or copasetic no less!
anyway, i agree that there was no need to anger the russians, but the united states did.
It’s a she. She’s a feminist with military writing experience.
False.
Russia ended 2007 with its ninth straight year of growth, averaging 7% annually since the financial crisis of 1998. CIA - The World Factbook -- Russia
9 years of 7% growth isn't even a double, let alone six-fold.
Inaccurate. Ostensibly the troops were there to protect the massive amounts of war materiel donated by the Allies to the Russians for use against the Germans.
Why American (and other Allied) intervention is considered shameful is obscure to me. The Bolsheviks took power with the proclaimed intention of overthrowing every other government on the planet. Essentially, they declared war on the rest of the world.
For that matter, the intervention was an international effort in the very best traditions of the later UN. Over 150,000 troops, with the US providing less than 10% and by no means dominant. The author should have loved it.
BTW, we also had troops in the Archangelsk region.
All 3 points serve mostly to satisfy incandescent rage of a leftist, then represent anything close to reality.
This author managed to pen a whole column and get not a single fact correct. Sure insane babble. Not an accurate, rational thought to be found in it.
Russia is the primary backer of Irans nuclear program. Has been for most of the decade. The US has done nothing to “anger the Russians” the Russians have been playing footsie with our foes. If anything we have been far to passive in confronting the reckless behavior of Putin’s regime
Yes, given so many "Leftists" show clear admiration for the political strategies of Ronald Reagan, as she does. (/sarc off)
yes, you are correct about iran.
but kosovo did anger the russians.
You might want to reread that paragraph for context, because she's using it as an example of US/Russian cooperation, from what I can read.
Author: Fantasist
You Buchannites are as bad as the Obamites. You simple worship a myth. Love the way the same people who trashed the hell out of Reagan for talking to the USSR in the 1980s when he was in office now suddenly want to manufacture a mythic Reagan who never actually existed.
Total idiocy.
US GDP $13,843,825,000,000
Russian GDP $1,289,582,000,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
If anyone should be taking a page out of anyone;s book, Russia should be copying us.
The part that struck me was the part where she argues that the U.S. is like a man flaunting his mistress in front of his wife. That, after the section where she argues that the man should’ve bought-off the wife first.
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