Slapping the Russians
In a YouTube video J. McCain is recorded saying that "In the 21st Century, nations don't invade other nations."
He was talking about Russian troops crossing into Georgia to respond to attacks by the Georgian military on one of two areas within the country's borders, South Ossetia and Abkhazia., small peas in the stew of numerous populations that have been tossed around for centuries of absorptions, separations, expulsions, slaughters, and the like in that forever restless region where the Russians and the Turks have been the biggest and baddest characters.
The attraction that Abkhazia holds for the Georgians and for the Russians is obvious. It contains half of Georgia's Black Sea coastline, and it was the favorite playground of the Soviet elite. The appeal of South Ossetia, where these attacks occurred, is not as clear. It probably has to do with the circumstance that, with Georgia having broken away away from the U.S.S.R. to become an independent country, separatist movements in both enclaves engineered moves to become independent from Georgia in turn, and so there it is, with the Russians quite happy to continue sticking it to their Georgian defectors by supporting those two uppity areas in any way it can.
As the Russians pre-date the Muslims in being the automatic villains in the eyes of the U.S. media until such time as the facts are in, the Russians have generally been painted as the aggressors in the case, though the truth seems to be that the Georgians started the ball rolling, gambling that G.W. Bush nee J. McCain would discourage the Russians from making more than a token move. But after routing the Georgians that opposed them, the Russians have lingered, and they are having a good time rumbling through the Georgian countryside in tanks and keeping everybody guessing.
McCain, the "Cold War Warrior" and a candidate for U.S. President, isn't passing up this chance to take gratuitous bitch-slaps at the Russians, and in this video he comes on exactly like a prissy keeper of the morals in a Southern park, lecturing a local ne'er-do well after she has caught him peeing on the azaleas.
As if GWBush is not still playing the part of U.S. President, McCain has been acting as if he is already in that office, by having checked in with the Georgians several times, as well as sending two of his main draft donkeys, Lieberman and Graham, to represent him there in playing chesties with the Russians, and surely the Bush gang can't appreciate that.
"In the 21st century," McCain says in his most patronizing tone, "countries don't attack other countries."
What! Have the conservatives now decreed that the year 2003 was in the 20 Century instead? You can't put it past them.
Or, failing that, GWBush's ordering U.S. soldiers to smash into Iraq in 2003 with guns blazing and tank treads crushing was not an invasion of one country by another, and was instead just a casual little duck-hunting foray or an excursion to pick up a few little doodads from one of the Baghdad museums? And what about the constant threats in certain thought pits in both the U.S. and Israel to bomb Iran, which is definitely a form, and maybe the most damaging and fearful one, of invasion? You know that, should that happen, J. McCain will be one of the cheerleaders with the shortest skirts, having never seen a war he didn't like.
Actually, as in the case of the mentally impaired, you can't fault this man too much, because anything is liable to come out of his mouth, and generally does. His brain seems to have no mechanism for previewing the things he says.
But you do have to wonder about the people that he thinks he's talking to. Can there really be so many who listen so lightly and think even less and so regard everything he says as making sense right off the bat?
Who says that the listening and reading comprehension levels in the U.S. are not causes for deep concern?
He was talking about Russian troops crossing into Georgia to respond to attacks by the Georgian military on one of two areas within the country's borders, South Ossetia and Abkhazia., small peas in the stew of numerous populations that have been tossed around for centuries of absorptions, separations, expulsions, slaughters, and the like in that forever restless region where the Russians and the Turks have been the biggest and baddest characters.
The attraction that Abkhazia holds for the Georgians and for the Russians is obvious. It contains half of Georgia's Black Sea coastline, and it was the favorite playground of the Soviet elite. The appeal of South Ossetia, where these attacks occurred, is not as clear. It probably has to do with the circumstance that, with Georgia having broken away away from the U.S.S.R. to become an independent country, separatist movements in both enclaves engineered moves to become independent from Georgia in turn, and so there it is, with the Russians quite happy to continue sticking it to their Georgian defectors by supporting those two uppity areas in any way it can.
As the Russians pre-date the Muslims in being the automatic villains in the eyes of the U.S. media until such time as the facts are in, the Russians have generally been painted as the aggressors in the case, though the truth seems to be that the Georgians started the ball rolling, gambling that G.W. Bush nee J. McCain would discourage the Russians from making more than a token move. But after routing the Georgians that opposed them, the Russians have lingered, and they are having a good time rumbling through the Georgian countryside in tanks and keeping everybody guessing.
McCain, the "Cold War Warrior" and a candidate for U.S. President, isn't passing up this chance to take gratuitous bitch-slaps at the Russians, and in this video he comes on exactly like a prissy keeper of the morals in a Southern park, lecturing a local ne'er-do well after she has caught him peeing on the azaleas.
As if GWBush is not still playing the part of U.S. President, McCain has been acting as if he is already in that office, by having checked in with the Georgians several times, as well as sending two of his main draft donkeys, Lieberman and Graham, to represent him there in playing chesties with the Russians, and surely the Bush gang can't appreciate that.
"In the 21st century," McCain says in his most patronizing tone, "countries don't attack other countries."
What! Have the conservatives now decreed that the year 2003 was in the 20 Century instead? You can't put it past them.
Or, failing that, GWBush's ordering U.S. soldiers to smash into Iraq in 2003 with guns blazing and tank treads crushing was not an invasion of one country by another, and was instead just a casual little duck-hunting foray or an excursion to pick up a few little doodads from one of the Baghdad museums? And what about the constant threats in certain thought pits in both the U.S. and Israel to bomb Iran, which is definitely a form, and maybe the most damaging and fearful one, of invasion? You know that, should that happen, J. McCain will be one of the cheerleaders with the shortest skirts, having never seen a war he didn't like.
Actually, as in the case of the mentally impaired, you can't fault this man too much, because anything is liable to come out of his mouth, and generally does. His brain seems to have no mechanism for previewing the things he says.
But you do have to wonder about the people that he thinks he's talking to. Can there really be so many who listen so lightly and think even less and so regard everything he says as making sense right off the bat?
Who says that the listening and reading comprehension levels in the U.S. are not causes for deep concern?
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