Good Comments on the Escalating Russian Situation

10 comments so far...
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August 15th,20089:57 am
I agree with President Bush! We are blessed as a nation to have him in the White House
— Posted by Priscilla Stevens
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August 15th,200810:01 am
President Bush is particularly well placed to scold Russia: he knows something about bullying, intimidation and international isolation.
— Posted by Jacques Weissgerber
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August 15th,200810:08 am
Georgia has democracy fine but what does it matter? Lenanon also had a democratic gov’t when Israel attacked it. We wouldn’t even ask Israel to cease fire and stop attacking a small defenseless country. How can we ask Russia (and expect them to take us seriously) when we have done far worse.
— Posted by Bill
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August 15th,200810:10 am
It is sad that this small country has to be beaten up by such a big super power. But we must remember that what goes around comes around. Bush and Putin could not have been more friends than they were in the years of his presidency. Putin was Bush’s right arm. Bush taught Putin well (not that Putin needed any lessons). We went after poor little Iraq with all lies and untold truths that there were, now his good friend Mr. Putin is doing exactly what he did to Iraq. Strange, that now he wants to call Putin a Bully (I wonder where he learned that one from). Good Luck Georgia and God Bless you becase with friends like George Bush and him with a friend like Putin Gods knows you are going to need it.
— Posted by diana
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August 15th,200810:10 am
Mr. Putin Now joins rank with the famous 20th century Ossetian dictator.He has demonstrated that he is a man of steel.The facial hair will follow.
— Posted by Matthew Dunaif
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August 15th,200810:11 am
this is a true fight to sustain democracy. now if bush didnt ruin the public’s trust in him, we might have rallied around this cause. now we may be too fed up with conflict to even care… what a shame.
— Posted by Albin
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August 15th,200810:14 am
Our worst nightmare — a reverse Cuban Missle Crisis — with cowboys in control instead of John Kennedy and Nikita Khruschev.
To act tough we rush to sign an idiotic missle agreement with Poland.
So Russia moves 10 km closer to Tblisi.
Why didn’t Congress do more about the reckless conduct torward the former Soviet Union countries?
Afraid of Rush Limbaugh?
— Posted by f bruce abel
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August 15th,200810:16 am
The sooner the better we get rid of this bunch of trigger happy fools.
We’d had nothing but trouble since our interventionist foreign policy began with the seizure of Cuba to save it from Spanish tyrany.Had we stayed out of WWI there never would have been Nazis, Soviets, and the Holocaust.
— Posted by MARK KLEIN, M.D.
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August 15th,200810:18 am
Georgia does matter! US relations with Europe matter! Our ability to form an effect response to this latest Russian move does matter! So what do we have to thank George Bush and his so-called Russian “expert” Sect’t of State for? An impotent rant about how this action will negatively impact the future of our relations.
Bush still doesn’t get it - he has frittered away all the power and moral high ground this country took centuries to amass with his asinine and foolish foreign policies and his penchant for appointing incompetent people to positions of critical importance. With his abandonment of our highest ideals about personal liberties and constitutional rights he has undermined our ability to strike out in favor of the Georgian people in any effective manner.
His beligerent manner also may have given false indications to the Georgian leadership that they could push the situation in South Ossetia further than was wise. What they didn’t realize was that Bush is “all hat no cattle” when it comes to a real confrontation - as are all bullys and cowards.
He should just resign his office right now and go back to Crawford. What an awful failure as President he has been! We will be lucky to recover as a nation from his disasterous administration no matter who becomes president in November.
— Posted by Joe Lane
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August 15th,200810:21 am
Once again, President Bush sees and discusses only what is convenient for him. Yes, Georgia has begun to function as a democracy. But Mikheil Saakashvili erred when he sent Georgian tanks into the disputed areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. A democracy has to protect the rights of all its citizens, including the ethnic Russians who were being thrown out of these regions. This is one of the biggest tests for a democracy: whether its institutions protect democratic rights even under extreme pressure. Georgia has shown itself to be undemocratic in this regard.Condoleeza Rice is an old Cold War hawk who has been pining for the return of those days since the Soviet Union broke up. She is leading President Bush to meddle in affairs at Russia’s doorstep. They provoked the Russians by supplying arms and training to the Georgians and now missiles to Poland. They are systematically undoing all of the progress that has been made since the Berlin Wall came down.Yes, Vladimir Putin is authoritarian. He needs to be brought into negotiations with Georgia, Eastern Europe and the West. President Bush said it is important to stay engaged with China. It is just as important to stay engaged with Russia.Rice and Bush are in very dangerous territory and they should stop escalating their rhetoric or they are going to wind up provoking a third World War. Tensions are higher than they have been in years. It is time to calm down, think through solutions.How would the American government react if Russia put missiles into Canada or Mexico? It would be just as upset as the Russian government has become over the US putting missiles in Poland.
— Posted by Elizabeth