Comments on: NEWS & VIEWS ROUNDUP & EDITOR’S COMMENT: August 14

By: Carol Elkins

Carol Elkins — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:41:34 +0000

The logic of a war of aggression seems to be that if the ruler of the invaded country was democratically elected its a violation of international law. But, if said ruler is not democratically elected it is perfectly okay, in fact, the right thing to do.

But, we have to give thanks to McCain for pointing out the absurdity. He wants us to get military with Russia? Why didn’t we do that 40 years ago, John?

Obviously we only want to invade a country where we clearly have enough superior force to win. That would have been Iraq.

The irony remains– almost anybody has superior force than Afghanistan, so why do invasions of Afghanistan always fail? In the case of the Soviet Union, in fact, the invasion of Afghanistan was fatal. So far we can’t claim to have done any better.

Hey– maybe there is another factor involved, rather than superior force. What could that be? Maybe I should start scratching my head. But, of course, to have a brain, in America, is elitist, and so if I know what’s good for me, I better keep on keeping on being stupid.

By: Ian Arbuckle

Ian Arbuckle — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:33:32 +0000

When it comes to the access and transport of oil and gas in a region it seems both ironic and hypocritical for the old cold warrior Zbigniew Brzezinski to ask the question of Russia: Will it continue to rely on coercion to achieve its imperial aims, or is it willing to work within the emerging international system that values cooperation and consensus? Would that question not be best directed to his own country or does he define “international cooperation and consensus” as following the US plan of coercion as per Afghanistan, Iraq or Somalia. But surely the prize of hypocrisy on this matter must go to McCain for : “in the 21st century nations don’t invade other nations.” I’d just love to hear someone ask, and get that man’s answer on a comparison of Russia’s case of protecting Russians and South Ossetians from Georgia and NATO’s case for protecting Kosovars from Serbia, and watch the war hero crash another plane on the deck, again!

By: alan stuart

alan stuart — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:57:21 +0000

just how much more arrogant can bushco and his minions get?
why is it that all of our government and worthless media decided to change the entire story of what initiated the current mess between russia and georgia?
why during all of the endless blather from pundits galore has no one thought to mention much less bring up the billion dollar sale of weapons to georgia by isreal?
why is it a forbidden topic to consider just what in the hell all of those israeli advisors are doing in georgia in the first place?
why is nobody talking of the american advisors in georgia as well?
why does the main stream media devote so much air time to this nitwit president from georgia to spout his nonsense considering the only thing that both he and bush share in common is the mentality of a turnip?
hopefully this time the good old usa has over reached its boundries in its attempt for world domination. perhaps the time has finally come that the rest of the world will realize that we who have recently started wars of aggression with two foreign soverign countires are in no position to speak of russia as if they did something wrong.
when the day comes and americans wake up from their dazed stupers and realize that idiots such as bush, mc cain and obama do not speak for we the people but only for themselves concerning political ploys and games.
this upcoming election will wind up being another sham or travisity to the principles our country was founded on. it appears that with all of the new laws and permission given to those in control have made the public even stupider than before not even realizing just how many of their rights are now gone. everday you hear of yet more ways being created to eliminate registered voters from the roles they are currently on. disabled vets are the latest in this assault, it seems that disenfrangement is the new came in town.
wake up fellow americans and for once finally accept the reality that that there is no war on terror but a war of terrorism against our country not by outsiders, but from the very powers we allegedly elected.