Look I agree with the point that Europe has a vested interest in not letting Putin’s mafia thugs walk all over Georgia. But to think that just because they get the oil from Georgia we have no interest is myopic and wrong.
As Georgia is able to supply Europe’s oil demands, there is greater availability of oil to supply US demands for oil.
If we do not supply the backbone for Europe, the thugs in Putin’s government will walk all over Georgia and Europe, the same way Stalin did during the Cold War.
Last and most important, if Putin’s tactics work in Europe, what is to stop Putin from getting his ally Chavez or Morales to try them with our neighbors in and around Venezuela here in our own hemisphere?
To revert to this ridiculous theories of realist foreign policies in a world so interdependent on dictatorships and thugs for energy is up there with Buchanan’s beliefs that Hitler could be reasoned with and WWII could have been avoided in stupidity.
