Pushing Russia’s Buttons

Suggestion: Do a poll in Czechoslovokia which, in the last half century, has been invaded and subordinated by both the Nazis and the Russians: Does Russian might make right? Why do you think the Czech Republic, Poland, and the other former "states" of the Soviet "Union" have all broken away from their self appointed "protector, Russia?" The roots of the Georgian problem go way back; it is silly and naive for you to blame the current war on the United States of America (thinly, but not very cleverly disguised as another Bush bashing). People like you oversimplify these situations and influence those who believe the nonsense they see and hear from lazy, intellectual midgets.

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If one takes the time and actually reads what most of these comments below say. You can have a clear picture of one simple thing. None of the "educated" below regardless of how much they like, or dislike Bush will actually put themselves in danger for an irrelevant country that put itself in danger by playing with fire. If I were Medvedev, I'd have some sarcastic remarks for our country as well. Then again, Bush and America has nothing to lose, so we yell at the top of our lungs like a beatup kindergarden kid - "The attack is disproportionate!!! "..hehe .. this is just embarassing. - Either shut up, or do something about it, and like I said before...neither I ....nor the geniuses below me here...have any interest.

As much as I respect and sympathize with our leaders , that their whole and only purpose is to guarantee our prosperity. Events such as these, will not only serve to display the fact that we SHOULD NOT stick our hand into every empty hole on the planet as someone will eventually bite it, but it will also eventually show that the American public will not care a bit for what happens in either Georgia, or Darfur, or anywhere else for that matter. As for those other jittery Baltic republics, they dont matter either. Our government needs to learn how to play on the playground we call world, before our gang of fed up citizens dissipitates

The truth is hard for Americans to hear these days. The fact is that Clinton and Bush's failed foreign policies is to blame here and the right and left don't want to hear that.

Michael Hirsh, who has instructed President Obama to "End the War on Terror" on 2/21/2008, has now told us that we should blame ourselves for Russia's mugging of Georgia. Mr. Hirsh, like so many liberals, is obviously a very "deep" thinker. So deep he can't tell right from wrong.

You gotta love these navel-gazing analyses which can find no wrong without blaming the U.S. Poor ole Putin and Russia, if that dastardly Bush had just not pushed them so hard, everything would have just been dandy. The writer keeps saying that Russia is not without culpability, but his disdain for Putin is minimal compared to his disdain for President Bush. Why not admit that this is simply another opportunity to bash Bush?

It seems to me that the argument in this piece was last used to explain how the stubborn Czechs brought war upon themselves by being insufficiently respectful to the Third Reich when all it wanted to do was protect those poor Sudeten Germans. Sad to see that the purveyors of this diseased bilge have not become extinct

This argument works only if you accept the premise of moral equivalence. To accept that premise, you must turn a blind eye to the tyranny of the USSR. Evidently, a war is a war is a war, and might makes right.

Let all satellite nations of Russia freely choose either USA or Russia to be their ally , I bet they all want to be USA allies as they had been bullied and exploited and oppressed so much for so long in the past by the greedy Communist Russia . We as the free world cannot stand outside and be indifferent to the bloody or sly aggression of either Spoiled brats Russia or China .

Yes, we are responsible, because Russia has been allowed to grow rich, while we have sat on our hands and HUGE resources here and instead have paid others to send us theirs. We willingly gave up the spirit ofleading the world in getting energy resources and developing our own and sharing our vast know-how and resources with the smaller and developing nations of this worrld, instead letting all the cash go to Russia. The world wanted to look to USA for its development, but because of the profligacy of our leading (misleading) idiots - Pelosi, Reid, Gore,etc., the world turns instead to Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan. With them we have given up our heritage to lead, develop, improve, refine, empower.the better angels of ourselves. It's hard to play catch-up for 30 yrs of idiocy and neglect.. So let's start and repeat after me, "Yes, we CAN drill our way out of this and accomplish anything else the handwringers say we can't. dmatern

After reading all of theses experts I'm convinsed we should pull all our armies in and close the doors. If people i n Somilia are being killed or Tibet is overrun so be it winner takes all. If they try to attack the US then its all over for the attackers. If canada is attacked or Mexico then its up to them to protect themselves. This should pacify all the whiners who will never be satisfied. Also if they want to go and fight as volunteers again so be it, but without the support of the US. Then when you come home we can spit on you refuse to give your jos back. My only hope in life is to outlaw all whining from public places like smoking it's just as obnoxius

Michael Hirsh is a noted russophobe. His hatred of Russia drives him to condone Saakashvili's war crimes and the genocide of Ossetians. I find it difficult why an American journalist would approve of indiscriminate killing of civilians by Georgian artillery. Fine, he doesn't like Putin. Neither do I. But how does this make it alright to kill sleeping women and children in the middle of the night using 155-mm howitzers and rocket-propelled artillery? It is disappointing to see Newsweek publishing neocon trash.

Michael Hirsh is a noted russophobe. His hatred of Russia drives him to condone Saakashvili's war crimes and the genocide of Ossetians. I find it difficult why an American journalist would approve of indiscriminate killing of civilians by Georgian artillery. Fine, he doesn't like Putin. Neither do I. But how does this make it alright to kill sleeping women and children in the middle of the night using 155-mm howitzers and rocket-propelled artillery? It is disappointing to see Newsweek publishing neocon trash.

So, without forgiving Putin's aggression in Georgia this week, the question we should ask ourselves is: was the bid to bring Georgia into NATO a bridge too far for the West? By aggressively pushing into the former Soviet sphere almost without pause since the early '90s, did we provoke the Russians beyond the point of endurance? It's a question that must be asked, because despite the flurry of diplomatic moves in recent days it seems pretty clear that Bush and Co. can do little to force the Russians out of Georgia. The reverse humiliation the West may now suffer, and the dispiriting signals this is going to send throughout Eastern Europe, will have a profound impact if Russian troops continue their occupation.

I think the better question may be- did we just give Georgia early admission to NATO? And will that be enough to deter Putin?

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Good balanced opinion. Other countries have the right to defend their interests, not just the US. We gave Kosovo international recognition as an independent state within Russia-allied Serbia, so the Russians defended their ethnically Russian enclaves in USA-allied Georgia from Georgian attack. Like it or not, this is what happens in world politics. Basically just exchanging pawns in a chess match.





This is what happened when you provoke a real country with a real army.

It's difficult to imangine an opinion so inane or assinine as this one. Some people will just do whatever they have to do to balme the U.S. (especially Bush) for anything and everything. One can only hope that this crowd someday decides to wake up and grow up and recognize a real threat when they are confronted with one.

Hey Obama has this new ad in Nevada this will win him this state hands down. Obama is attacking the issues state by state. His staff knows how to play hard ball.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_Backyard.html

Blast this video! A must see...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w&eurl=