Warmongers Among Us!

The situation between Georgia and Russia is very serious, as you know. But much of what you may be seeing or reading in the Big Money Media is being pushed by the same neocons and wingnuts who got us into the Iraq mess ... and they apparently are partially responsible for emboldening the Georgian president to make his "bold" and stupid move against the Big Bear.

And anyone who says that McCain is showing his strength in foregn policy isn't paying attention. McCain is a bigger hawk that George Bush has ever been. McCain is much more aligned with the Dick Cheney school of diplomacy, which is speak loud and threaten with a big whiffle ball bat. Thanks to 7+ years of Bush/Cheney rule, we have no leverage to stop anything Russia is doing and the only thing left would be direct action by our military. And McCain, Cheney and others would love another war, or two, or three.

Check out this article by Gregory Djerejian at The Belgravia Dispatch blog:

"Meantime, a Georgian soldier tells a U.S. reporter in the same piece: "Write exactly what I say. Over the past few years, I lived in a democratic society. I was happy. And now America and the European Union are spitting on us." They are, aren't they? They had no business making the cheap promises and representations that were made. No business on practical policy grounds. No business on strategic grounds (though I guess it got Rummy another flag, near the Salvadorans, say, for the Mesopotamian "coalition of the willing"). And now our promises are unraveling and nakedly revealed for the sorry lies and crap policy they are, with the emperor revealed to have no clothes, yet again. This is what our foreign policy mandarins masquerade about as they play policy-making, in their Washington work-stations. It's, yes, worse than a crime, rather a sad, pitiable blunder."

Maybe McCain does not equal Bush. He may be much worse.
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