Is America really in a position to criticize others is the first question. Personally, I think America is not a country that should open its mouth considering our own bloody history of using the military to conduct preemptive attacks or retaliatory strikes.
Secondly, we simply do not know what precipitated the Russian-Georgian conflict. Anti Russian rhetoric has been ramping up since Russia raised hell about the US putting nuclear missiles in countries next to its borders. So the question becomes did Georgian contribute to the conflict?
The US is fond of taking a situation and blowing it up to the American public in order to divert American attention from something nasty happening somewhere else, usually by our own hand. Magicians call it slight of hand. If we focus out attention on Russia, perhaps we’ll over looking something really sinister happening in Iraq or Afghanistan, like the billions of dollars that have been lost through corruption by American contractors ( subject being broached by the GAO).
Mr. McCain is a hawk and those types of people should worry a normal person. Bad things happen when hawks win the day, and America is already fighting a two front war, our military is beyond the breaking point and we’re in debt up to our tushes. America cannot afford the wars we have going already.
Punishment actions against Russia, especially when we do not know the truth, is going to bring a very unsettling stand off. We’ve come too close to nuclear war with Russia over the Russian missile thing in Cuba.
