Fred on me, “c4″ – the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle, the pattern emerges. Right out of that bog mick knuckledragger, Pat Buchanan.,
Perhaps in your fevered mind, but pat Buchanan has served as the fearless canary in the coal mine warning well ahead of “the conventional wisdom” on the dangers of global trade screwing the American worker, mass immigration, Europe’s demographic collapse, China&Russia’s ongoing danger, and the foolish neocon wars for Empire and safeguarding Israel.
Add Buchanan is followed globally by conservative Parties, that his books are international best sellers, and his early work to invigorate Republicanism under Nixon, Reagan and you have a substantial contributor to American politics and debate on key issues. In his sunset, like Moynihan, that bog mick knuckledragger does more in a week to shape America and global discussion than Fred has done in a lifetime in his little balliwick.
Fred – I hope that smarter minds than my brain are able to see this handwriting on the wall and get moving in the right direction.
That doesn’t take much, since you are an unquestioning sort that laps up whatever the neocons put before you.
Fred – If we can’t save Georgia, we sure can destroy the Mullah’s toys, destroy Iran’s navy, bomb to smitereens the Revolutionary Guards, and decapitate the leadership. Won’t be much left for Moscow to work with. So, doing Iran will put it to Putin, right where it hurts. –Fred Aug, 11 2008.
Yeah, that makes sense. We go to war against Iran on very thin casus belli to help our “Special Friend” simply because Russia bitch-slapped our puppet ruler. Start a 3rd, major war to fight out over years at the same time as the other two wars drag on – with little Reservist eligibility left and our active duty people desperately needing a lull to renew and reset their abilities and learn from past bad American military tactical and strategic decisions.
Ledger – I think we have an obligation to those Georgian troops who helped us in the sand box to avenge the bombing and shelling of their families.
Fortunately, George Washington was wise enough to understand you kill your own citizens off in war not because of friendship with or “favor return obligation” to foreign nations – but only for American vital interests. Washington’s view on entangling alliances prevailed over the “Francophiles” who argued that the french help at Yorktown made France our BFF, and obligated us to “serve France when they asked for it.”
Washington had no room for such sentimental nonsense, understanding a nation should only ask for the lives, health, and suffering of it’s youth when the Nation would be imperiled, otherwise. Good. He avoided thousands of “grateful” US corpses littering French battlefields up through the Napoleonic wars. And we kept that policy wisely as other powers chewed themselves into 2nd rate nations in other wars where we interceeded late, or only when war was declared on us.
In the Cold War, we may have overextended ourselves – but managed to find a way for proxies to die in their own conflicts instead of Americans except for Vietnam and the direct Korean challenge up until the neocon era.
And we were still smart enough to avoid mutual defense treaties with nations that had long time conflicts with nations able to inflict mass slaughter on Americans if we intervened in matters outside our vital interests. (Which do not include in “vital interests” dying to prop up any democracy, capitalist system, or friendly nation or human rights crisis). Thus we have no Pact to die and bleed treasure for Conglolese or Darfuran welfare, no Pact obligating the US to defend Taiwan or the Philippines, no Pact committing US lives and treasure to Israel’s colonies in occupied lands or the Israelis even with the money & power of the Israel Lobby in play.
Fortunately, the Euros were saner and wiser than Bush and the neocons about keeping Ukraine and Georgia out of NATO. Washington’s warnings of entangling alliances finally were embraced by Europe AFTER they were ruined as major powers by two disastrous wars.
Good warning for those wose wealth and position ensures that they have no kids that risk military service, who wave and rattle their sabers wanting the US involved in at least 5 more simultaneous wars on top of the 2 trillion, near Army-breaking two protracted wars we are already caught up in. In Georgia. Against Syria, Iran, against Hamas&Hez, and humanitarian “surgical war” against Congo child warrior gangs, Sudanese…plus those suggesting we should add war with Pakistan, the Saudi “Islamofascists” for good measure, do a “lightning War” against Chavez, liberate Cuba, issue a war guarantee to Taiwan.
Its time for those intoxicated with their belief in American military power as an easy solution to all foreign problems, that comes risk-free for their own well-off families being shot at – to take a deep breather
