Last night President (shiver) Obama ordered the prosecutors at Gitmo to halt all cases for 120 days. Most likely this is so he can figure out what to do with the inmates and finally close down the black eye of the beacon of freedom. One of the big arguments about Obama closing down Gitmo is […]
That’s not what I am saying, but rather what Putin is saying: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Matthew Chance in the Black Sea city of Sochi Thursday, Putin said the […]
The Boston Globe questions McCain’s constant chastising of Middle East adversaries by saying they don’t embrace our “Judea-christian values”: At the end of a long list of reasons to be suspicious of the Iranians, McCain declared: “And they sure don’t share our Judeo-Christian values.” It seemed at the time to be an odd thing to […]
John McCain: My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression. McCain last month: McCAIN: The fact is we had four years of failed policy. We were losing. We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of […]
Bush speaking today about the Georgia conflict: “Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century.” Not acceptable unless your name is George Bush. His foreign policy has been based on nothing but “bullying and intimidation”. Just ask Iraq.
The blogosphere has been talking for days about McCain acting like he is President when it comes to the Georgia conflict. From having press conferences about the conflict, to sending a “delegation” to the embattled country, the media has acted like McCain was just doing the job of a candidate. No more. Today’s Washington Post […]
A column in the Guardian really takes a different look at the conflict in Georgia. The byline alone is an eye catcher: War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial drive as local conflicts. It’s likely to be a taste of things to come It deserves a thorough read as […]
How many times have we heard about all the “expertise” Condi Rice has on Russia? Interesting that during this conflict we haven’t heard much from her. Well it turns out Condi too busy on “holiday” to be bothered with the problem, though the State Department claims she has made over “90 phone calls” about the […]
There is mounting evidence that John McCain may have lifted parts of a speech he gave today about the Russia/Georgia conflict from Wikipedia. Maybe John is just trying to show that he has learned how to use the internets.
The people in Georgia wonder why the U.S. and NATO isn’t there helping them fight Russia: As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they won’t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?” A similar sense […]