Sat 9 Aug 2008
AJ Strata makes an excellent point why it is the European Union and not the US whom should be doing the heavy lifting on the Russian invasion of Georgia.
Russia has attacked a European nation (even if it is not yet in NATO or the EU). When the EU rebuffed Georgia’s entry into NATO recently, and therefore withheld the security protections that membership incurs, they were more interested in poking America and Bush in the eye. They sacrificed their neighbors to get in a cheep shot at America - and now Europe is being invaded.
And in his usually biting way, Strata skewers Europe and the Left:
Is Europe still a bunch of Neville Chamberlains, willing to sacrifice smaller nations in sure-to-fail effort to appease the predators? We know Obama is the epitome of Chamberlain model, still hoping for defeat in Iraq after we have already achieved victory! The world is be tested again, as it was on 9-11. Will it respond in a lesser way to the killing of civilians by military forces than it did to the killing of civilians by terrorists? Are we at the point were military invasions are less worthy of responding to than terrorist attacks?
