The Defiant Ones

Yeah...Hussein stopped the violence...according to dingleberry, Tim Kain't. Boy, Virginia ya'll got a real winner. Someone apparently forgot to tell the Russians.

Hussein really hit it on the head. his initial statement was basically..."This isn't within the "spirit" of the Olympics." The he wants the U.N. Security Council to get involved. The Russians are on the Council. They have veto power. Hussein is really showing his inexperience, and lack of knowledge, about real world events.

Yet the Kool_Aide Kids...the devout obamamohammed....they still support the dunce. Ya'll are WEIRD.

NOBAMA!!!

Boy, you people will take any subject and make it a reason why you think we ought to vote for Obama. If Obama gets into the Whitehouse, all of our allies can forget about us coming to their rescue. If he can't charm them, or talk them into compliant ( you know "tear down these walls!"), it is just going to be too bad.

there are now 3 superpowers in the world and 2 of them are not are friends. We are not about to get into a shooting war with Russia over
Georgia. We've thrown many countries and peoples under the bus for the so called greater good. think Taiwan or the former republic os free China. They even had to lose their name. Mainly we need Russia to help keep Iran nuclear free. And us complaining about them attacking and occupying another country is a joke. Think Iraq. We have no moral authority here. If George Bush and the republicans are so keen on keeping us safe that they read our emails and listen in to our phone calls but totally missed this, They're looking in the wrong place. Where were the satilite photos of russia moving their troops to the georgian border? Just like before 9/11 bush was so focased on finding a reason any reason, whether it was true or not to attack Iraq that they dismissed all the reports of an attack coming from afganistan as unaceptable intel. bush over played his hand by taunting russia by wanting to put our missles on their borders. Remember what happened when russia was trying to put missles in cuba? So we will play our little games using the pawns but never engaging the big players, and countries like georgia will suffer. They just don't see the big picture.

Wasn't it defiance that caused a group of Europeans to tell old King George to shove it, and they, then left to travel to a foreign land, not knowing what they would find, yet they were willing to risk their very lives for something they believed strongly in---the right to be free--free to worship in their own way, without interferrence or control, free to use their skills & various talents to reach their dreams, dreams a varied as they were, but in each one obtaining their goal, they in turn benefitted each other, learning from each other, sharing their abilities with each other, so that they eventually became the most powerful nation in the world in a relative short time, while other nations had millenniums to accomplish the same, yet did not. It took a few who were determined and strong spirited enough to finally do what seemed impossible. So, defiance can often be a positive thing, when it results in something good for everyone. Defiance can, also, be a negative thing, it all depends on what the goals are of the defiant ones, and what the end results are.

There are many similarities between the rhetoric and behaviour of Germany in 1938 and Russia in 2008, for example the defending of one???s citizens abroad argument, accusing a smaller country of attacking a larger one, claiming that the world is biased against them, fostering separatism and ethnic conflict in its neighbours??? territories. Carl Bildt drew some good parallels between Russia and Hitler???s Germany in a recent article.

Russia has agreed to both sides withdrawing their armies only because it has no intention of pulling its forces out. It sees an opportunity to make Georgia disarm unilaterally. Russia will claim that its army in Georgia is peacekeepers, policemen or voluntary militia of the South Ossetians and keep it in. The only way to ensure that both sides withdraw their armies is to send in an international peacekeeping force, no member of which is from Russia, Georgia or any group in Caucasus. That force should have the arms and authority to enforce withdrawal of armies.
Georgia was the lightning rod for Eastern Europe. Russia focused its economic, propagandistic and military bullying on Georgia, lightening the pressure on countries of Eastern Europe. In the 1990s Russian military planes were flying over the Baltic states and Russia was imposing trade sanctions on them. After the Rose Revolution in Georgia this activity shifted there. Now that the lightning rod is broken Eastern European countries should expect a lot more economic and military trouble from Russia.
An old anecdote from the post-communist countries: An American, a German and a Russian are boasting in a bar. The American says: ???On my farm I drive a Ford, when I go to work I drive a Lincoln and when I go abroad I drive a Cadillac.??? The German answers: ???When I am at home, I drive a Volkswagen, at work I drive a Mercedes and in other countries I drive a BMW.??? The Russian says: ???I drive a Zhaporozhets at home and a tractor at work.??? ???And when you go to another country???? the others ask. ???When I go to another country I drive a tank,??? the Russian answers.

Where is the EU and NATO. Talk about wimps! Unwilling to take a stand. No wonder they like Obama so much!

This article is laughable. I think the public has been desensitized to the "Bush Derangement Syndrome" of so many journalists. I wouldn't use this magazine to wipe my rear end.

By this analysis, then we can blame Bill Clinton for millions of deaths in Africa from HIV/Aids during his term, because, unlike Pres. Bush, Clinton looked the other way and did not lead. We can blame Bill Clinton, and others, for ignoring the human tragedy which occurred when the Taliban, by force, took control of Afghanistan in the mid to late 1990's. We can blame Bill Clinton for the deaths of the 3 1/2 million who died in the D R Congo conflict between 1996 and 2000 - just after Bill Clinton went to Rwanda (for which we also give him immunity) and promised "never again." What a joke, with contributor and diamond merchant Maurice Templesman standing at Clinton's side, the millions who died there, and hundreds of thousands who died amongst the other genocidal like conflicts in Africa during the late 90's (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Angola, etc) are the true legacy of one Democratic administration. Now personally, I would have never blamed Clinton for those millions of deaths, the millions of refugees, the millions more who contracted HIV/Aids, and the hundred of thousands of human beings who were seriously injured or whom suffered in the rape wars of the Congo; rather I would have only held him as a member of the complacent crowd, who simply looked the other way, and who prayed that the stigma of such horror might not get attached to his legacy, but when I see how quickly the media and others tend to blame relatively little conflicts like Darfur and Georgia on President Bush, I see that this is the way of our media.

Dickey; Dont be an idiot. You will be reminded that not a single world governement ever recognized the Confederacy['' It's slavery. You know that our country can never recognize you'',remarked British Army Col. Arthur Fremantle to Confederate general James Longstreet immediately before the battle of Gettysburg in 1863].
Yet within only a few days of the Russian invasion,the leaders from no fewer than five Baltic states including Latvia,Lithuania,Ukraine,Estonia,and Poland appeared in Tiblisi to offer support for the embattled Georgians ,well knowing that their time,unlike a Confederate invasion of Canada or Mexico,would come next.
Further,it is plain that the dullwitted Dickey[who continues to allow gross Obaman partisanship to cloud his judgement], never heard of the Berlin Airlift,which was:

humanitarian aid without military confrontation. Against the Russians,no less.

Dickey joins Juan Cole and Matt Ygelsias in the leftwinged chimeric Changing Of The Story. First it was Georgian perfidy ,yet as Russian tanks get closer and closer to Tblisi,it is now All George Bushs Fault That The Megalomanical Putin and ex-KGB Man Is Acting In Such A Fashion.
Bravo-Sierra. Putin is acting in this fashion because he is Putin. And Bushs humanitarian aid can indeed come in the form of several JAVELIN anti-armour or anti-air arms stashed among the food ,medicine and clothing. Charlie Krauthammer,writing this morning, observes that a lost Georgia in no way means an ultimately victorious Russia. Kick them out of the G-8[or better,all seven democracies resign,and reform the G-7 again,shutting out Ivan]. No WTO membership for Ivan. Bad Russkie. No bisquit.
All European and American corporations now doing business with the Russians are to forthwith withdraw,packing up their engineering and technological expertise.
Thus there is no end to the non-military arsenal that the EU and the US can use in reponse to the lying Russians. Dismiss the Coles and Dickeys of the world who merely dance to a Kremlin wirepuller,as they are singing Putins tune right now. As far as the leftwinged goes,here is your REAL ''War For Oil'',courtesy of the Kremlin. As they are merely stooges for Putin it will be interesting to observe their rationale once Tblisi has fallen to the Red Army.

That's odd Chris. Everyone I've spoken with in the South said they wouldn't vote for Obama under any circumstances. You may need to broaden your sampling....