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| McCain: US must reevaluate relations with Russia |
| 2008-08-14 |
| Republican presidential candidate John McCain says Russia's invasion of Georgia requires a complete reexamination of U.S. relations with the Moscow government. McCain has told reporters in Michigan that he was pleased the United States canceled a planned joint military operation with Russia. But he added that the U.S. will now need to review the full range of its relations with Russia. McCain says there should be heightened security arrangements for Ukraine, the Baltic states and Poland. But he rules out military action against Russia or a return to the Cold War. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #8 Liberalhawk, wasn't Zbigniew Brezinski in charge of Carter's foreign policy when the Soviets started wars/conquered Afghanistan, Angola, mozambique, Ethiopia (both sides), El Salvador, Nicaragua, and others not to mention the Iran thing. I'd rather he had nothing to do with politics anymore, thank you very much. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-08-14 17:31 |
| #7 He IS a good learner from what Ive read. Maybe not in the Bill Clinton class, but still pretty good. It mainly depends on who he picks for his for pol team. Mixed bag there. And it matters who goes where. Take Zbigniew Brezinski - if he advises on Israel, very bad. On Iraq, not so great. On Russia, well, not too different from McCain. maybe MORE hawkish (whether thats good or not) |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-08-14 14:41 |
| #6 I'm sure that with a suffiently long and well structured apprenticeship he will do better. Assuming he applies himself to studying and learning. Eventually he may be qualified to lead something. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-08-14 14:34 |
| #5 I will agree that the first response by the O camp was somewhat ham-handed, though in fairness its not like the official US response was terribly clear, and FSU republics is like one of McCains main focuses going at least back to 2000. And I dont think the folks who did the first responese were his A team on Russian affairs (that would be this McFaul fellow) I would also point out that the situation in Georgia has been evolving over the days, and thats impacted the US govt response, as well as Obamas. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-08-14 14:25 |
| #4 Of course there isn't. O has had time to listen to McC and adjust his message appropriately. Hell, there's even been time to cleanse the campaign website of inconvenient earlier statements. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-08-14 13:34 |
| #3 The chosen one is saying pretty much the same thing as the white-haired dude, a tad less strongly, but also a tad more articulately, as you would expect. Theres really not much daylight between the chosen one and the whitehaired dude on this, indeed far less than between their shared position and LOTS of voices on the net both left and right. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-08-14 11:44 |
| #2 I thought The One solved this crisis already. |
| Posted by: Woozle Unusosing8053 2008-08-14 11:35 |
| #1 Russia should be treated like a snake. You respect it, but you don't trust it, and every once in awhile you whack it with a stick to make it get into its hole. I'm sick of Russia. They had every chance to become a first world nation helping us in the War on Terror and they chose to be brigands and thugs and crooks. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-08-14 10:47 |