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The crisis in Georgia, 9/11, and the lessons of gratitude

August 10, 2008 - 7:52 am - by Roger Kimball
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2008-08-10 19:14:14

Let’s see John McCain get in there and bomb, bomb the Russians and start a bigger war. He is just as an hubristic fool as Bush.

The problem has been the lack of American diplomacy in the past seven years. The American diplomatic corp has been neglected in favor of American military build-up. With diplomacy and tact this war could have been averted.

Condoleezza Rice fashioned herself as a Russian expert before she joined the Bush administration. She viewed Russia as the threat of the future. If so, why didn’t she work to defuse the problem earlier? Reason, she is as incompetent as the rest of the administration. We know that because of her idiotic responses to 9/11, because of her saying, in light of overwhelming evidence, ‘who could have imagined that such an attack could happen’.