Just now, I listened to Our President. I am so happy he is
the president and not John McCain or Mitt Romany. Everyone knows McCain is a warmonger
but so is Romany by political association. Romany has no idea where the Ukraine
is but he had lined up the neo-cons as advisors and they know.
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I listened hard to Obama this morning and there was not one
mention of bombs or weapons, not one tactical nuclear weapon—not one “saber
rattle”. It would be as easy as a snap of the fingers for him to have started
the cold war all over again to the applause of those who would profit form the military
industrial complex. Think of Bush-Dick Cheney and their greedy ties to the gas
and oil industry and Cheney’s personal ties to Lockheed Martin.
These guys are like trench coats dressed teen agers with AK
47s looking to cause fear in the minds and hearts of all their enemies and worse
of all, all their suspected enemies—to be feared is to be respected. I am convinced
they have the John Wayne tough guy image so imbedded in the psychic that they
feel obliged to each other to get down off their horse and thump someone, somewhere,
for something and Putin would have been the perfect target. Either you agree
with them or you are the enemy and deserve a thumbing; as George W. Bush said, “you
are either with us or are against us”. I wish it stopped there but it doesn’t.
I haven’t heard the throwback yet but expect it will soon
start. I can hear it now, “The U.S. looks weak under Obama’s leadership. He is
not standing up to Putin. Putin is winning, etc.” What the right wing is saying
is that Obama had many opportunities to look tough and start a war. I disagree.
Instead of lookiong tough, he chose to look smart, keep us out of war, and
still win. He will win this Crimea battle but best of all he will show Russia for
what it really is; a third rate country and not a world leader. He is treating Putin like a little boy and not a world leader. He told him to get down off his horses and put his shirt back on before he catches a cold.
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I fully agree with using great caution. After all, Russia is.
ReplyDeleteThe accusatory cliques have already started flying from folks such as McCain. You would think that a man with military experience would be better tempered with regard to the potential use of the blunt instrument. I thought we paid all that money to diplomats to avoid doing that. McCain was quoted as saying that the US should sign up to sending defensive weapons to Ukraine. Perhaps if war is declared by Ukraine against Russia then we should be thinking in these terms.
I was thinking about the winners and losers in this contest. Russia doesn't gain any strategic advantage in Crimea's declaration of independence however they do preserve one. Their navy is currently based there so the ability of Russia to project its naval force is largely dependent on not loosing access to those bases. For the US, I'm not seeing a comparable strategic interest. The impact of our direct involvement there would be much like a previous Soviet involvement in Cuba. The turf location makes a big difference in the degree to which powers are inclined to act. And what is gained by the US?
I'm hearing some sources saying that Russia is annexing Crimea but that doesn't seem to be true. It appears to me that Crimea has just declared independence from Ukraine. That may have been ongoing for some time. They were already semi-autonomous. Am I getting wrong information? I'm not seeing why we should get involved there at all. I would be most interested to hear other reader's opinions on this.