Appeasing Russia

This John Barry must be the substitute history comentator. The guy has no clue, OR he thinks he is read by a bunch of idiots.

Trying to compare Germany's aggression with Russia's attack is totally ludicrous. Hitler aggression on Poland and Checkoeslovakia was totally unprovoked.

1. Russia's agression was a result of Georgi bombing Ossetia for an entire night and killing hundreds of innocent civilians.

2. According to this Webpage, when asked why ke attacked, Sakslivi indicated that it was the perfect moment.

3. The Russians requested an emergency session of the UN to stop Georgia's aggression.

4. The emergency session, led by US, Britain and germany refused to do anything about it because Russians request indicated that both sides should refuse to use force.

It was then that the Russians attacked. Not attacking would have been appeasement for the Russians. After all, Georgia was one of their republics just like texas is one of our states for 200 years. Stalin who ruled Russia for many years was a Georgian, just like Bush is a Texan.

So Mr Barry, go back to what you do best, maybe home economics or something like that and stop making a fool of yourself, please.

Newsweek and MSM, things have changed. You are not the only source for our news. It takes only couple of mouse clicks to get to the truth. Shame on you. This is the same media which did not really question the Iraq war but was enjoying the profits from "shcok and awe" show!!

Newsweek is making a false propaganda. Read the Indian newspapers: they are saying Georgia attacked and killed thousands of pro-Russians with Russian passports who are the people of South Ossetia, who wanted to join their brothers in North Ossetia, a part of russia. This is also true about Avkhazia. Then the Russian troops came to protect both the citizens and Russian peace-keepers who were being killed by Georgian soldiers. The President of Georgia, who took power in a rigged election two years ago is a known criminal, but pro-American, so he is not guilty.
After the brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq and preparations of another invasion on Iran to steal their oil wealth, the destruction of Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, does USA has any moral right to say anything if Russia asserts itself ??

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If the only reason Russia's invasion of Georgia is to protect their citizens, they may have a valid argument. But if they continue their invasion of Georgia without an immediate withdrawl back to their original positions, then it might be safe to assume Putin has other intentions, which may explain why he fought so hard to be prime minister. If Russia digs in and stays in Georgia, then we can assume that Putin's remarks about the breakup of Russia, as the biggest blunder in the history of the Kremlin, to be a sign that Russia is now attempting to reunify the old Soviet block by political and military force. If this is Putin's intention, then we have a whole new problem and all of the former Soviet block nations will need to show solidarity in force and be prepared to defend themselves against being absorbed back into the old Soviet Union. A fast track to Nato membership may need to be discussed for a number of Russia's neighbors.

I know the jews are going to be blamed for this too!!!

Why don't you just blame this on the Jews... Everything else is

The oversimplistic analogy between 1938 Munich and the present overlooks significant differences between the two historical events. Most significantly, the fact that a Georgian offensive preceded the Russian invasion makes all comparison inapplicable. Our failure: not pushing the parties for legitimate local referendum for independence of S. Ossetia and Abkhazia--if we were truly democrats rather than partisan allies of Georgia, we could have diffused this.

If America were to get involved at this point, Bush would be roundly criticized in the press. This suggestion is nothing but a setup to see if Bush will get involved and provide an excuse for our press, which would normally call for the President to stay out of it. Our media has not supported any military intervention anywhere since the Clinton Administration. So, it would be better to let Georgia fall and let Bush's successor deal with the consequences.

This situation with Georgia and Russia pales in comparison to Hitler. And then the autor says send in American Peace Keeping Troops. What will we do if Russia physically rejects them? The author gives no thought to the principle that action begets reaction and the first action or reaction should not always be force. This kind of thinking is just another example why we should return to the draft. When our leaders can send anyones and everyones children to fight they tend to reason more critically.

WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH THAT??