From the John McCain for President campaign:
It’s this campaign’s position that every American has a “vested interest” in the welfare of the Republic of Georgia, a key regional ally and a member of our Coalition in Iraq. Georgia is a small, democratic state which has seen its sovereignty violated by a much larger pseudo-democracy. If the position of this campaign “mirrors” the position advocated by the Georgian government, it is because John McCain stands by our allies as Senator Obama offers only platitudes about condemning violence that mask the deeper moral equivalence of his foreign policy positions.
Pardon me Senator, but when the heck did the fate of some little country in the Caucuses become a “vested interest” of the United States ? And just how has the Georgian Government been a “key” member of the “Coalition in Iraq” ?
Yea, I thought so.
Are Russia’s actions in Georgia worthy of condemnation ? Absolutely.
Are they worthy of anything other than that from the United States of America ? Absolutely not.
To put it simply, this isn’t our fight.
August 11th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I strongly disagree with that statement. Let’s not forget, it was Georgia who committed the first acts of aggression against South Ossetia by launching an invasion of that region that clearly does not want to be a part of Georgia (and 90% of whose citizens hold Russian passports and are Russian citizens).
Russia’s actions are justified…this time.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Kevin,
You may well be right, I honestly haven’t paid enough attention to the story.