CPT. Charles said:

“Victor Davis Hanson drops the hammer:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDcwY2I4MjhjMTc0Y2Y4ZmJmMWNmNzJlOTA0Y2MxYjg=

For anyone with 5 brain cells still firing…Obama is sunk.”

The requirement of having 5 brain cells firing excludes all moonbats and almost half of all independent voters (B. Hussein could still become President).

VDH’s article is brilliant. I was going to write this long winded comment, then read VDH’s article and said “why bother?”. I particularly liked VDH’s last paragraph:

“Instead, Europe — both western and eastern — along with the United States and the concerned former Soviet Republics need to sit down, conference, and plot exactly how these new democracies are to maintain their independence and autonomy in the next decade.Hopefully, they will reach the Franklinesque conclusion that “We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.””

More to the point, we need to figure out what to do about the Ukraine. The Ukraine is obviously the next victim scheduled for the Russian chopping block. We need to think about this very carefully:

I suspect that simply admitting the Ukraine to NATO isn’t good enough. Decades of Gramscian damage has taken its toll in Western Europe. Latvia is a member of NATO. I suspect if the Russians had invaded Latvia rather than Georgia, the Western European response would have been various politically correct comments followed by a Neville Chamberlain replay (the Europeans would have pissed straight up). Setting NATO up for immediate collapse by inviting the Ukraine to join is probably not a constructive approach. Perhaps a bilateral defense treaty between the Ukraine and the United States is the answer? If the US did that, we’d be showing our middle finger to Vladimir Putin in the clearest possible way. However would Putin call our bluff (we would be bluffing)? That’s the scary bit.

Putin has played the Georgian thing with extreme cunning (classic real politics that could have been described by Thucydides or Polybius). I like the bit about him attending the Olympics with George W. while the gambit went into execution (reads like something out of Frank Herbert’s “Dune”). Putin is going to play it equally smart concerning the Iranian nukes and the Ukraine. We need to be thinking clearly if we’re going to beat this guy (heaven help us if B. Hussein wins the election).