#1
NO! Do not impeach him! Do not give him what he wants! Then he becomes a martyr (and guess what card will be played) instead of the worst President in US history.
#3
..Jerkface Killa! Welcome back! I thought of you the other day while explaining to a Lib co-worker why "key parties" at family reunions were a really bad idea..
[PJMedia] There isn't going to be a war over Ukraine. There isn't even going to be a crisis over Ukraine. We will perform our ritual war-dance and excoriate the Evil Emperor, and the result would be the same if we had sung "100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" on a road trip to Kalamazoo. Worry about something really scary, like Iran.
Ukraine isn't a country: it's a Frankenstein monster composed of pieces of dead empires, stitched together by Stalin. It has never had a government in the Western sense of the term after the collapse of the Soviet Union gave it independence, just the equivalent of the family offices for one predatory oligarch after another--including the "Gas Princess," Yulia Tymoshenko. It has a per capital income of $3,300 per year, about the same as Egypt and Syria, and less than a tenth of the European average. The whole market capitalization of its stock exchange is worth less than the Disney Company. It's a basket case that claims to need $35 billion to survive the next two years. Money talks and bullshit walks. Who wants to ask the American taxpayer for $35 billion for Ukraine, one of the most corrupt economies on earth? How about $5 billion? Secretary of State Kerry is talking about $1 billion in loan guarantees, and the Europeans are talking a similar amount. That's not diplomacy. It's a clown show.
#3
But of course the pro-western Ukrainian elements were only able to kick a Pro-Russian leader out of the country. Now they get to kick actual Russian ass.
#6
It has a per capital income of $3,300 per year, about the same as Egypt and Syria, and less than a tenth of the European average.
As long as people anywhere on this planet are willing get a backbone and lift themselves out of this type of the socialist, corrupt, government debt laden environment like the Russian style system that only provides $3,300 a year income, I say good for them.
#7
I'm waiting to see if it takes Cuba invading Venezula to put them back in the news...
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#8
The problem is the immense damage done by Kremlin toadies, which is now coming due The other problem is the propaganda war of demonizing the western oriented Ukrainians as "fascists" by the Russian press - and the stupidity of the Russian population buying it hook, line and sinker. Its the latter that makes such military moves possible for Putin.
"It is a textbook KGB-led operation: the agent provocateur, followed by a self-organized militia, then Russian military protection to defend 'their people. The tactic was used to good effect throughout the Soviet period in Communist coups. Its what brought down the government of Afghanistan and caused 30 years of war. And again it is unlikely to be resisted."
#5
If only we had Leadership who weren't blind rodents.
Of course the American people are all fruitbags and lining up for "free stuff" They elected the rodents, they actually chose to have a Biden as the best we could do...or Kerry..or a moral lizard like John Edwards...or who is that fat queer in Congress ? Or that paragon of ethical Leprosy Harry Reid. The democrats have the corner on cannibalistic bacteria. And the republicans are boneless quivering slugs.
And Obama rises to the top. America gets what it deserves.
Been to Church lately? No. Go lock your doors. Its YOU, America. You don't believe in decency anymore. If your son is a fag you won't HAVE any descendants. Pure and simple. The abortion has come home to roost.
We don't look weak, we ARE weak. The Leadership of the United States is a gutless Incompetent.
Tell me it isn't so. Go on, tell me.
#6
gromgoru, I think Afghanistan was the start of the pivot point. Ten year's waste of blood and treasure, but I've been saying that for quite a few years.
Afghanistan was the Tranzi's 'good' war and an utter disaster. I still marvel at how almost no one on the Right of politics speaks out against it. Not that it matters anymore. Far too late.
The world will now pay heed to, and follow, those who can and will act quickly and decisively.
#8
RE: Afghanistan, much like Iraq both were really two wars. Many supported the invasion/removal of government but didn't really support the nation building.
We took a chance aiming for Democracy. A historic gamble that would have been shaky even without the left within our own country and the Oil For Food corrupt folks outside the US nipping at our ankles every step of the way.
#10
Nation building could have been attempted after the decisive defeat of the respective enemy nations not before.
Furthermore an essential part of nation building would have been the imposition of minimal standards of decency, as defined by Western civilization on the defeated populace and their leadership.
Alas the West has ZERO civilizational self-confidence and is utterly unwilling to do any of the above.
Instead our political class is willing to import aspects of the enemy's alien tyranny into Western nations.
IMO the pivot point was reached by September/October of 2001. Bush apologized for using the word "crusade", Powell offered political power to "moderate Taliban" and "Infinite Justice" was demoted to "Enduring Freedom".
It should have been clear even back then that the political class would allow no serious reaction to even a mass fatality attack on the CONUS.
[TheCommentator] It is not clear what the Left is complaining about over items such as Ukraine and Syria. In Britain, Europe and the United States they all swooned over Barack Obama. They got the weakling they wanted. So, what's their problem?
Over in the United States, the attempt by foreign-policy enthusiasts in the Democratic Party to distance themselves from the train wreck that is the Obama administration has been gathering pace for some time now.
Finally, it is starting to happen in Britain and Europe too where, after Syria, Ukraine and many other instances, the leading lights of the political Left seem to have woken up to the fact that Western leadership isn't quite what it might be these days.
"One of the alarming features of the crisis on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula is the staggering confidence with which Vladimir Putin is pursuing his agenda there and in eastern Ukraine," reads the opening paragraph of the Observer's editorial on Sunday.
Actually, there's nothing staggering about it all, unless you have about six years of baggage to shed over your support for Barack Obama. Putin clocked Obama for the weakling he is from day 1. All we're seeing from the Russian leader is more of what we have seen over Syria, Iran and a host of other cases, except that Ukraine is right in Putin's own back yard.
"One thing is certain," the Observer says, "the current crisis presents the biggest threat to security in Europe since the Balkan wars, and western leaders, including Obama and David Cameron (who has spoken to Putin on the phone), have hardly been impressive in their response, demonstrating a weak grasp on the events unfolding. For now, Putin is ahead of the game. It is time for the international community to catch up."
H. L. Mencken to the courtesy phone. Mencken to the white courtesy phone, please.
I don't see how it's Mr. Cameron's fault: Britain is no longer a world power and can't respond to events more than a few hundred miles from its borders. It no longer has a navy or air force, and its army (man for man as good as there is) couldn't get to Ukraine today except as tourists.
There are two countries that can influence events this week in the Ukraine: the United States (but we won't), and Poland (and if they do it's a shooting war). The rest of the West is on the sidelines, by their own choices and decisions made the last thirty years.
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Well at least its not the French...geez still can't get over the French taking the lead in Libya and in Syria...but seriously folks, the Poles are tough guys, just because Hitler knocked them flat in 1940, it wasn't from a lack of resolve, had more to do with lousy obsolete equipment...anyway, dial it back to the gates of Vienna and the Ottoman Turks. Who bailed out the west? It was the freaking Poles and King alphabet with the unpronounceable name who routed the Turks.
So don't take the Poles lightly. I am glad they are staying out of it, because they HATE the Russians and it would go from zero to armed combat in about the time it takes Zero to line up a putt.
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[TheCommentator] It is not clear what the Left is complaining about over items such as Ukraine and Syria. In Britain, Europe and the United States they all swooned over Barack Obama. They got the weakling they wanted. So, what's their problem?
