President Bush, saving your ass whether you like it or not.
Pat, Pat, Pat!
There’s no such thing as peace, only R&R.
I strongly suggest you buy a map of Asia. Or at least call one up on Google if you happen to know how to use the Internet. Now, check out the location of Afghanistan. And note how Georgia is a narrow avenue to Central Asia between Russia and Iran. And that Georgia provides us the means to both fly planes from Europe to Afghanistan and to allow Caspian oil to bypass Russia and Iran. And now tell us how Georgia is NOT a vital US national security interest.
Oops, never mind. You probably would LIKE more oil revenues to flow to your fascist soul brothers in both countries, and for us to be hamstrung in Afghanistan. And you're probably mad that we have bases in Europe because it means we beat Hitler's ass in WWII. A war YOU thought wasn't worth fighting.
So Pat, tell us again why we should give a rat's arse about your opinion whether a war is worth fighting or not.
I don’t know why this crowd no matter the message—automatically imputes treachery to Buchanan. For instance, the Israelis stopped sending arms and support to the Georgians as soon as the Russian conflict heated up. Does that make Israel sellouts, treasonous, turncoats to America and its interests?
I would be willing to bet that many on this board who now condemn Buchanan for being unwilling to support the Georgians would not be so happy to condemn Israel for doing the same thing.
For that matter I would be willing to bet that most on this board could not even find South Ossetia on the map before this conflict heated up.
It isn't.
On the other hand, if Georgia were already a member state, Russia wouldn't have been so ready to allow artillery harrassment of Georgians. Georgia wouldn't have been so ready to launch an intervention they would need NATO backing for.
More likely, none of this would have happened.
The current demarkation would have simply become the border.
As it is, this is what is going to happen. Georgia will not admit it, but if they want into NATO they will have to forget Ossetia. NATO isn't going to fight for it. Russia will have to rein in their bully boys, because NATO won't stand for it. Granted, there won't be much militarily they can do about it, but their diplomats will simply annoy everyone until it stops.
NATO membership is a two-edged instrument. Georgia is defended, but Georgia's military gets some third-party supervision.
I think a case could be made that Putin favors McCain. His adventure in Georgia has probably made McCain's election a certainty.
Quotes from Pat Buchanan:
“Washington D.C. is Israeli-occupied territory.”
“Only the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States wanted to fight Saddam Hussein.”
“Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”
“This so-called Holocaust Survivor syndrome involves group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.”
Sounds like another "Neocon" kook conspiracy theory by P Buchanan. Im sure Obama agrees completely with his "neocon" war conspiracies. Those sneaky "neocons" in the Bush Administration picking on Iraq, Iran and baiting those poor unsuspecting Russians.
I just wish Pat would issue these statements in the original German, there is just so much lost in the translation.
Thanks for posting. The role played for foreign lobbyists in shaping American foreign policy is nauseating, and would disgust the Founding Fathers, as Buchanan’s citation to the pertinent portion of Washington’s Farewell Address shows.
Yawn.
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This article is sheer blather.
From what I can glean online, Buchanan does have the Scheunemann resume correct.