[kj] (OT)Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?

[Karen Weil]

McCain's comment was one of the most stupid things I've ever heard uttered 
by a pol. And that's saying something.

No, McCain -- I'm an AMERICAN, thank you very much.

K.W.
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From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [kj] (OT)Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?



> And here is yet another one, a piece in the Washington Post written in 

> response to John McCain's preposterous statement that "We are all 

> Georgians."

>

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401360.html

>

> Some people consider the Washington Post to have a liberal bias.

>

> SO: That is one 1) article from an avowed conservative that says, wait a 

> minute, the Georgians are the ones that fucked up; one 2) from Gary 

> Brecher, author of _The War Nerd_, who claims he is a classical American 

> conservative (not a Bush-style neo-con); and 3) a liberal paper. Three 

> different ideological backgrounds, all claiming rightly that Georgia 

> instigated this conflict, and really fucked up in invading Ossetia, half 

> of which is attached like a set of testicles beneath Russian and into 

> Georgia's borders, and the upper half of which is in Russia, but all of 

> whom consider themselves to be ethnic Russians, not Georgians.

>

> States generally have a mandate to protect their citizens and peoples when 

> they are attacked. Indeed, that is a large part of the justification for 

> the existence of nation-states to begin with. The hysterical 

> Western/American reaction is absurd -- as if the old Cold War USSR has 

> landed the Red Army in Pennsylvania circa 1965 or something. What the hel. 

> In the meantime, Condi Rice signed a deal to put US missiles in Poland, 

> Russia's border. Imagine if Russia did that with Canada. But they didn't; 

> they went into a part o Ossetia and staunched a Georgian assault on ethnic 

> Russians.

>

> -Oliver

>

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