Wow. Funny enough I was a major reader of the Belmont Club from 2001 until 2005. It was mostly because of the Iraq War analysis that I came here. When it became clear that it was only going to be a mop-up operation and Bush was going to wait until the 2008 election to deal with Iran, I stopped reading.
But now I am noticing that the “compatriots” whom agreed with me that Islamofascists needed to be shot at and dealt with (by death squads or whatever), I am shocked that I see what appears to me to be a bunch of rednecks taking their cues from the left wing media about what is really going on in Georgia and asking suggesting that US soldiers KILL Russian men directly or indirectly!
That is insane. The Georgian government is NOT necessarily really democratically elected anymore than Hillary Clinton REALLY won the New Hampshire primary.
Think about it. Read the Russian blogs. That is unless you don’t read Russian…in which case you might consider taking advice from those of us Army veterans who DO read Russian and who might actually LIVE in Russia.
Now…imagine that you have a border dispute over a lake on the Quebec-Vermont border.
Suddenly the Quebec leader, egged on by an oil agreement with Vladimir Putin (and the presence of 130 Russian military advisors) attacks and kills 1400 Americans who live in a town by the lake.
Now 1400 Americans haven’t been killed by our enemy in any war except for on 9-11. The Nazis never tried to kill American civilians and look how ferociously we fought them to total surrendor and annihilation of German cities.
Don’t you still feel the white hot anger at Al Qaeda for what they did to civilians in the World Trade Center??
OK. Now. Step back. Let me ask you:
Dig deep down inside your brain and ask yourself…do the Russian people have the RIGHT to have the same emotions you have under similar circumstances?
If you can understand that, regardless of whether YOU think they have that right or whether you feel that you are SPECIAL because you are an American and Americans have manifest destiny to be the only ones who can act on a world stage to protect their citizens AS WELL AS TAKE REVENGE on the leader who caused the 1400 deaths, the Russian people really do not CARE what an Americna redneck in a trailer park thinks (or a Neocon policymaker who is on his way out the door in January and good riddance to him or her).
Do you have any idea how enraged Russian people are regarding the 1400 dead civilians in Tshinvali on Friday?
Americans apparently had the God-given RIGHT to bomb Serbia to free Kosovo. Bush horrifying rubbed all Slavs the wrong way in March by needlessly recognizing Kosovar independence.
Americans not only rescued their citizens in Grenada and Panama…they stuck around to make sure they established regime change.
Who gave the green light for shelling civilians in South Ossetia?
When the dust settles, Russia is probably not going to have tried to or wanted to take Tbilisi…unless the American advisors egg the Georgians into a guerrila war of some sort instead of a ceasefire and negotiations that will probably leave the Georgians out of Abkhazia and South Ossetia permanently.
There is more: If Negroponte trained death squads in Georgia to be used against Russians…what he did can badly hurt the USA and, when the Europeans investigate this, sink the US Neocons.
Death squads are OK against Islamofascists and Colombian drug dealers, but NOT against Russian citizens.
What the Hell would anyone be thinking to have disobeyed the laws of war against Russians?
Now I am hearing that the Georgian President, egged on probably by American neocons, just declared the territories where Russia has been for 16 years “occupied territories”.
In other words, the US Neocons WANT Russia to have no other choice but to remove this guy. That move is more than defiant. It says “I want war”.
Which makes me wonder what type of weapons the Neocons are moving in that they want Russian men to die from…when a simple agreement to non-use of force in the disputed territories was practically signed this morning in Moscow.
