The Defiant Ones

Can somebody tell me, WHO IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE United States of America? Is Bush still the president? If Obama was acting like the hawk McCain has proved he is, the media would have gone agog to brand him names and: "acting too presidential." That was the case in his (obama) tour-de-france and germany. Hypocritically, the have kept mum over McCain's excesses in assuming and "speaking for America!" How difference a week makes.

Come to think of it, I believe and reasonably so, that THE DRAMA IN GEORGIA MAY HAVE PROMPTED BY McCain THROUGH HIS TIES TO SAASKAVILLY. Through his aid and agent to the Georgian government, this must have been a ruse to expose America to the dangers that still exist ahead and how risky it will be to elect Obama to tackle those. The legislature must investigate this allegation, I smell another bible has been signed for the Ayatollah here. Win at all cost, that's the republican way!

If you want a "world cop" you don't want "clean and virtuous"...you want Jack Bauer from "24" or that real nasty S.O. b. from "The Shield"...we ARE talking confronting the RUSSIANS boy-yo!

Mr. Dickey

In what world do you live in? i stopped reading your article when I discovered it was a waste of my time. you ignorance is plain a day. we never talked with the argentines about the Falkland's! they assumed we would not get involved! are you stupid or something? if we follow your fairyland logic then every war happening now, all 150 or so, is our fault! oh oh i know! it was all bush's fault for the french-English 100 years war! cuz cuz bush used a time machine to tell the Brits "We stand united!" yha yha and bush he uh like killed Kennedy! yha like cuz he was a Dem! yha yeah that's it!

i hope you where high as a kite when you wrote this creative essay, if not you are truly a idiota. (that's one of them Latin words, you remember Latin right?)

Ho boulomenos

Well of course it's AMERICA, who it should be? France maybe? That's why you need to keep a clean profile, be virtuous and stuff, in case we need you :)

The irony of this whole situation is that although everyone complains about America sticking their nose in everyone else's business. First sign of trouble, and it's, AMERICA, where are you? Can someone make up their minds? Either you want us to be the world police or you don't. Shouldn't be case sensitive.

We ain't lost Georgia quite yet...it ain't over till it's over. Ya'll can take your string quartets plying Chamberlain Music and tut-tut all you want...the Grown Ups are going to have the final say when McCain takes office.

as was feared by many the bush doctrine of pre-emptive war and unilateral action has been turned against the u.s. the russians just did not bother to lie why they are invading another country and it is hard for the bushies invasion outrage to be taken seriously.. remember all that WORLD OPINION the bushies showed so much contempt for, we need now- flash- it is gone! bush(in a chamberlin moment) declared putin and the soviets folks we can work with and new BFF. at the same time, believing their own press clippings about u.s,. the only superpower blatther, arrogently proceeded redo e. europe as a "buffer region" continuing the cold war policies and selling all the starwars dreams; expensive and untested mil. hardware, to e.europe . along with promises of security. if the bushies fail to secure Georgia they will lose all of e.europe. who will believe u.s. promises? e.europe, which has been a pawn/tripwire in world power politics since ww1. you are right about the romance of resistance. but the czech's and hungarians did not rebel on their own. R F E and the CIA and the first coming of the neo-cons(d's actually) were wispering sweet nothing into their ears. their caculation was if revolts worked -fine. if the revolts did not ,they made trouble for the russians. and most of all it was a media nightmare for the ussr. C's saw success or failure a win-win. it did not matter who died, the u.s. won. and as far a surgates getting powers into wars, the region is infamous. just ask the germans about their covert actions in the region to hamstring the russians and their serb nationalist bud's with ear's still wet from whispered german bon mots in said ears . started a little thing called WW1. maybe good can come from this. maybe the threat of world war will knock brittney, paris, wondering politians and reality shows off the nets and nightly news. and maybe we will pay more attention to what matters! maybe the R's/C's will stop carping about chamberlin loosing the czeck's now that bush has lost Georgia. it will be george the appeaser, because he cannot act thanks using up the military and refusing to tax his base to defend the country. george bush has broken this country and now he does not even have a functioning state dept. to help him out of this mess! is he still prez?

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If the Russian Air Force and or their precious Black Sea Fleet want to come out to play...so be it as I am confident the USAF and US Navy will make short work of them. To HELL with the Russian Bear!

You want DEFIANCE? 1) Med Fleet transits to the Black Sea via the Bosporus covered by USAF based out of Incerlik, Turkey. 2) Bring a USMC Amphibious Assault Group with it (the super-harriers will come in handy) This is all to support the Humanitarian Mission our troops are being sent on. If Russia so much as lips off to our guys we take out every piece of Russian Armor in any region of internationally recognized Georgia.
IfRssRus

america has to stop getting into other people's business so that it can stop thinking it is obligated to help any and every country. Georgia is a sovereign nation not little US who thought on its own and has to bear the consequences. The GA president should've thought more crititically. something like this ...russia is bigger let's be careful. That would've been a great place to start. That's part of being independent. Georgia and Russia have had longer relationship than the US has been in existence and Russia and Europe warned the US of getting too close to home when they were inviting all of their past territories to join NATO. The US is not invincible nor are its policies perfect so GA should've thought more wisely.
these news organizations seem to always highlight what's wrong with america or everything for that matter. yes the US deserves to be reprimanded from time to time but to always dish out that the US is an overall pathetic country though it is the country that pays your bills is poor journalism.

The Western World and the Council on Foreign Relations are using Georgia and Poland to expand their control for the one Globalization World, which they will rule. CFR has put in their puppet, Saakashvili in Georgia, and is attempting to replace their US puppet George W Bush with puppet Barack Obama.

Russia is being punished by the CFR and the Western World for their action last week to bar BP's CEO, Robert Dudley, from any corporate office in Russia for two years. (BP currently owns 50% of Russia's oil company TNK-BP.)

The CFR controlled Western World would prefer to have a cold war with Russia than to be unable to control the world's wealth and the world.

Those of us who are against the CFR controlling the world must look to Russia and China for our own sovereignty. David Rockefeller (founder of CFR), Zbigniew Brzezinski (co-founder of Trilateral Commission and #1 adviser to Obama), Richard Haass (President of CFR), Peter Sutherland (President of Trilateral Commission and Chairman of BP OIL.) are not friends of the working class, but are for themselves ruling the world.

Until we rid our governments of CFR members and their chosen puppets, we must look to Russia and China to stop their domination.

To see the CFR members in the US
http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html

To see the Western World members of the Trilateral Commission
http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/TCMembers.html

And may our God help us from their harm.

He wasn't miscalculating anything. Saakashvili is provoking something between Russia and the U.S. This is nothing but a proxy war.

It seems as if defiant senators like William Fulbright are gone forever. Today's senators just play along, no guts. Fulbright told it like it was. His book The Arrogance of Power (1966) tells of the failure of congress to set limits to the Vietnam war. Does it ring a bell? He gave voice to the anti-war movement and legitimized it.
In the book he states that "the arrogance of power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is...susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, believing that God confers upon it special responsibility to make other nations richer and happier, to remake them in its own image. Power confuses itself with virtue and tends to take itself for omnipotence; imbued with the idea of a mission, assuming that it has the duty to do God's work." This is the mission that Bush and his White House have assumed as a mandate from the Almighty itself. They feel that they have to propagate their brand of democracy around the world, for the purpose of exerting political influence and control on other nations. The former Soviet republic of Georgia has fallen victims to this arrogance of power which has resulted in Georgia's adoption of their own arrogance ending in their demise. There is a need in Congress for a new voice like Senator Fulbright 's to bring back enlightment to government.

But isn't all the US actions and inactions are what the majority of the Americans want, that the USA is great enough to start war anywhere they like and to eventually control the whole world? The Americans are willing to sacrifice their lives and comfort to achieve the untimate goal. The Americans do not mind to be destitute as a result of all these calamities whether natural like Katrina, California fires, floods, draughts, or man made likesubprime mess, 9/11, the war in Afgjanistan and Iraq, all the calandestine actions in Latin America and ither third world countries, proxy wars, high oil price which are stretching and straining the USA to the limits.

Interesting and thought provoking article.
It points out the real problem of a foreign policy that is emotion based, the current administration is based wholly on emotion, something Bush has made a point of his "gut feeling" if you will as though he had superior instincts.
Many of the problems and even the support of this administration are emotion based.
It's not uncommon among Bush supporters to claim his tax reduction as proof he is acting in their best interests.
The truth of course is a family of four with an income of $60,000 received a meager $15.00 per year tax reduction the total of which is now spent with every visit to the grocery store.
The entire push to invade Iraq was based on emotion, and since bin Laudin was allowed to simply walk away in Afghanistan the residual emotion from the twin towers attack was intact and allowed Bush to invade Iraq in spite of facts, the truth or common sense.

The polls are interesting in that college graduates over whelming support Obama and we see only emotion driven derogatory campaigning going on and I take the comment about well read southerners to make reference to that fact.

But at some point emotion driven policies have to come head to head with reality as we now see in Georgia.
As a very wise man once pointed out "the fact is emotions have no brains"

Time to grade on the results and not somebody's opinion of what could happen or what could have happened..

For example, if the Russians continue to back out (grudgingly) then the US position was a good one and the President of Georgia should have listened when the administration told him to not tease the bear.

Under the presidency of this idiot....bush...th u.s. has gone back to pre ..1939 economically and pre 1980 politically...he should be impeached now and his entire administration held accountable for crimes against the americn people

the bush administration should resign or be arrested in total for war crimes....it is a mockery of the history of the united states ..this man in the white house...is an idiot