{"id":2279,"date":"2008-08-14T09:15:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2008-08-14T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T13:15:28","slug":"a-peek-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"A peek into the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Georgia crisis has given us a peek into the future and a glimpse of what President McCain and President Obama would do in a crisis. An AFP story<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n

\u00a0“During an international crisis when bipartisanship is needed most, it’s disappointing that the Obama campaign has chosen to launch inflammatory and baseless political attacks,” said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.<\/p>\n

He was responding to an attack from Obama’s top foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, who said the Republican’s strident rhetoric against Russia would backfire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n“When this crisis began, Barack Obama, the administration indeed and all of our NATO allies took a measured and reasoned approach because we were dealing with the facts as we knew them,” Rice told MSNBC late Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“John McCain shot from the hip – very aggressive, very belligerent statement. And he may or may not have complicated the situation,” she said.<\/p>\n

Campaigning in Pennsylvania Tuesday, McCain declared that “today we are all Georgians,” as he attacked Russia’s “gross and outrageous over-reaction” and demanded that Moscow be evicted from the G8 grouping of leading powers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McCain an old Reagan cold warrior told the truth about the incident and spoke in old warrior terms…terms that won us the cold war. The Obama team, on the other hand, took the old Cold War Post-Truman Democrat stand – they began pussyfooting around with the language and accusing McCain of being a cowboy – just like this poster that came out in the early 80s;<\/p>\n

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\nThe worn out Post-Truman, post-Long Telegram Democrats culminated in the failures of the Carter Administration and led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and that’s what we’re cleaning up today.<\/p>\n

NPR laments the fact<\/a> that McCain is showing off his foreign policy credentials while Obama takes a vacation;<\/p>\n

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With Barack Obama on vacation, John McCain has the campaign trail and the airwaves largely to himself. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been displaying his foreign policy credentials on the Georgia-Russia conflict.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the Wall Street Journal, John McCain writes “We Are All Georgians<\/a>” and reminds us that the world isn’t a safe place, no matter how much you hope for change;<\/p>\n

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\u00a0For anyone who thought that stark international aggression was a thing of the past, the last week must have come as a startling wake-up call. After clashes in the Georgian region of South Ossetia, Russia invaded its neighbor, launching attacks that threaten its very existence. Some Americans may wonder why events in this part of the world are any concern of ours. After all, Georgia is a small, remote and obscure place. But history is often made in remote, obscure places.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

McCain explains the situation to the American people, while Democrats complain about McCain’s language more than they complain about the Russian invasion of Georgia. Sound familiar? It certainly does to those of us who lived through the 80s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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