McCain's War: Playing With Nuclear Fire
Wednesday 20 August 2008

by: Steve Weissman, t r u t h o u t | Perspective


John McCain. (Photo: Bill Pugliano / Getty Images)
John McCain calls the conflict in Georgia "the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War," and he is doing everything he can to make it his own, even at the cost of upstaging the shrinking President Bush. But the tragedy in Georgia also reveals the most embarrassing foreign policy blunder since - well, since the Bush administration decided to wage a preemptive war in Iraq. If deep thinkers in Washington insist on setting up a string of client states to encircle Russia, they should never let the puppets pull their own strings, as [Georgian President] Mikheil Saakashvili appears to have done when he sent his army into rebellious South Ossetia.

Certainly, the Russian bullies were just waiting to pounce on any provocation, but that is precisely the point. Never provoke unless you are prepared to respond, and don't leave the decision to "the help." Every day the crisis continues, Washington looks more foolish, huffing and puffing and mouthing demands that no one - least of all the Russians - take as anything but Cold War rhetoric. This could lead to dangerous miscalculations on all sides, yet no one in our dumbed-down imperium seems likely ever to be held to account.

http://www.truthout.org/article/mccains-war-playing-with-nuclear-fire

McCain is starting his warmongering early it seems. People who vote for him have to be out of their minds.

"Russian bullies were just waiting to pounce on any provocation"

Oh please, Bullies! The U.S. is encircling Russia by admitting every ex Warsaw Pact nation into NATO, to include Georgia? The U.S. that acts as a rogue nation attacking at will and making up lies to justify their military incursions?

Just who the "Bully" is, is quite clear. It's the U.S. There aren't a lot of people who study what the U.S. is up to with Georgia. The U.S. intention was to admit them into NATO, then put offensive U.S. warheads in Georgia targeted at Russia.

Go Russia! Kick the influence of the rogue U.S. Empire out!

I think the US is searching for long term military footholds in the world. I also think McCain is a warmonger at heart. It is scary enough to see what Bush has accomplished. The American people were blind enough to follow like lost & frighten sheep. Still I must admit war sometimes is necessary Iraq was not not one of those situations. I still support our troops no matter what.... When it's all said & done after all the lies and misleading it's the troops & thier families that have paid the price.

I think this situation is just a little more complex than the posts here so far reflect.

However,I do agree though that I have little confidence in McCain's ability to handle this situation. One of his campaign advisor's being on the Georgian payroll and the day McCain makes a pro-Georgian statement his campaign receives $200,000 from them doesn't inspire much confidence in him or his ability to act in the best interest of the American people either.