A place for me to glibly and superficially vent about liberals. Comment all you want but comments with vulgarity reflect poorly on the commenter's mother and will be deleted out of respect for her, whoever she is. If you are offended I offer the Jonathan Gruber excuse, I was being stupid, thoughtless and inexcusable. If not then I was being witty.
Was Romney right? That depends on your definition of goo-political threat. If this misbehavior was such a geopolitical threat, then one has to wonder why Russian troops are still in Georgia. Go ahead--blame Obama for that too.
The reason that Russian troops are still in Georgia, and that Russian troops will remain in Crimea, is that we do not have strategic interests that are worth military intervention. Hence, Russia (at least so far) does not represent the greatest geopolitical threat. Putin knows this. Georgia was the template.
Let Russia move against a NATO country, or Saudi Arabia, and the calculus changes.
I guess Bush should have done more in the four months he had remaining in office. But it was probably stubborn resistance to Dem calls for decisive action. Apparently he did enough that Hillary had to press the reset button.
Was Romney right? That depends on your definition of goo-political threat. If this misbehavior was such a geopolitical threat, then one has to wonder why Russian troops are still in Georgia. Go ahead--blame Obama for that too.
ReplyDeleteThe reason that Russian troops are still in Georgia, and that Russian troops will remain in Crimea, is that we do not have strategic interests that are worth military intervention. Hence, Russia (at least so far) does not represent the greatest geopolitical threat. Putin knows this. Georgia was the template.
Let Russia move against a NATO country, or Saudi Arabia, and the calculus changes.
I guess Bush should have done more in the four months he had remaining in office. But it was probably stubborn resistance to Dem calls for decisive action. Apparently he did enough that Hillary had to press the reset button.
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