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- rawg, on 08/15/2008, -3/+5I hope people can see through his inflated rhetoric and realize that despite his military pedigree, John McCain doesn't really have a handle on what's going on in the world today.
Even if he ignores the first Iraq War (90-91), Afghanistan (01-08), the current Iraq war (03-08), which the US was directly involved with, that still leaves conflicts in Rwanda (90-92), Bosnia (92-95), Chechnya (94-96), Kosovo (98-99), Sudan (03) and Israel/Lebanon (01/03), all of which were more significant than what just happened in Georgia. - Thomaslee3, on 08/15/2008, -3/+5This is our first crisis with a nuclear power since the Cold War.
That is what he means. This crisis is the harbinger of a resurgent, nationalistic, angry Russia, and may just be the start of its other foreign adventures in Europe and abroad.
That's what McCain means.
The Iraq War is serious, but it's impact is largely regional and is already self-contained. - orelses, on 08/15/2008, -2/+4I see. So whenever "communists" are involved its a crisis. Vietnam is over you can clock out now.
- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -2/+3Does he need to add "with Russia" for you dummies to grasp this context of this?
Apparently so. - orelses, on 08/15/2008, -3/+3Doesn't Pakistan have nukes?
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -4/+3This putz is a complete and utter moron.
- AmericanElitist, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2wait, isn't the war in Iraq... a war? and the situation in Georgia is a tense... situation? um, how many dead in Iraq and how many in Georgia? How many troops involved, how many nations involved, how many years, how many dollars spent... I won't even get into 9/11 which changed our world completely. c'mon dude, are you so republican that you will justify any innane comment mccain makes?
- holaamigo, on 08/16/2008, -1/+0You are all making too big an issue of this. Both Obama and McCain say stupid things sometimes. Accidents like that happen when you are talking and giving speeches all the time.
- rawg, on 08/15/2008, -4/+2It's only a "crisis" in the minds of the media and neocon warmongers. If you stand back and look at what really happened, it was a contained regional issue that doesn't involve the US at all and the EU only marginally. Georgia tried to reclaim territory in South Ossetia that was being protected by Russian peacekeepers, Russia responded a little heavy handedly and then there was a brokered ceasefire after a few days. No different than what Israel did in Lebanon back in 2006. The use of nukes was never in question.
Sure it may escalate and there are definitely ulterior motives related to control of oil/gas pipelines and maybe a little bit of imperial chest beating on the Russian side but Saakashvili is just as culpable for making a politically idiotic and irresponsible move against the Russians in an effort to distract Georgians from the corruption and incompetence of his government.
At the end of the day, it's a regional issue that really has nothing to do with the US, unless we allow ourselves to be drawn into it by a plea from Georgia's incompetent President to come to the rescue of a fellow "democracy." In his excited rush to prove his foreign policy credentials, McCain fell for the bait and is spouting bellicose rhetoric and making commitments of support that he has no right to offer as a candidate for president. Talk about being presumptuous.
FFS, John McCain is so reckless and war crazy that he may get us involved in another war even before his campaign is over. - ruthkle1n, on 08/16/2008, -3/+1Gee -- and I thought we went into Iraq because of their "weapons of mass destruction" to avoid the "mushroom cloud" that Cheney and Rice were scaring us with.
- gotabereal, on 08/15/2008, -4/+1Why is it that McCain gets away with that kind of crap and lies? It's a state of mind. Addicted to conflict and fear we are? STOP IT.
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