Like the rest of the media we've been busy fretting about the scandal involving someone whose sole importance is that he used to be a presidential candidate months ago. Every other story has been blown away. Particularly the war in Georiga. And that is unfortuante because it is one of the issues we'll voting on in November.
Yes. Believe it or not Georgia DOES matter. And it still matters. A lot more than the media will let you know because they are refusing to do any actual reporting involving researching a matter they find "boring."
George W Bush has been pushing for awhile for NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia.
http://www.foxnews.com/...
Given their international and internal ethnic situations Germany and France quite understandably vetoed the idea.
Some NATO allies, notably France and Germany, are reluctant to give Ukraine and Georgia the precursor to membership, saying they are not ready. But they also fear upsetting already strained ties with Russia, a major supplier of energy to Europe.
"France will not give its green light to the entry of Ukraine and Georgia," the French prime minister, Francois Fillon, said in a radio interview Tuesday. He said potential NATO membership by the two countries could upset the balance of power between Europe and Russia.
If George Bush had his way we'd be at war with Russia right now since an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all NATO members. At war because we want to defend the right of Georgia to crush the autonomous Republics they inherited when they declared independence themselves.
Is Georgian rights to prevent Abkhazia and South Ossetia from obtaining autonomy worth having a potential nuclear war over? Let's see what John McCain says.
http://mccain.senate.gov/...
Ukraine and Georgia
Georgia and Ukraine have expressed their desire for a NATO Membership Action Plan. We should offer it to them at the summit. These two nations have every right to aspire to democracy and security as other states closer to the heart of Europe. Ukraine and Georgia have difficult neighbors and domestic challenges; they are young democracies and their road ahead will be difficult. But they should know that we will support them every step of the way, and we can show them this by supporting their aspirations at Bucharest.
John McCain shows no inclination of doing anything towards doing anything to avoid another Cold War with Russia. Quite the opposite.
http://www.salon.com/...
As president, McCain says he would back up his tough talk with equally aggressive policies. He wants to kick Russia out of the Group of 8, the organization of the world's leading industrial powers. McCain has also long been a proponent of quickly expanding NATO to include former Soviet allies like Georgia. Russia bristles at the notion of the Western military alliance encroaching on her border. "Rather than tolerate Russia's nuclear blackmail or cyber attacks," McCain said in a March speech, "Western nations should make clear that the solidarity of NATO, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, is indivisible."
This kind of talk -- in particular the call to oust Russia from the G-8 -- has given pause to seasoned experts on that part of the world, who tend to emphasize engagement with Russia. McCain's harsh rhetoric and tough proposals led Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria to write an April column titled "McCain's Radical Foreign Policy." If McCain were to pursue his Russia agenda as president, Zakaria wrote, it would be interpreted by much of the world as an "attempt by Washington to begin a new Cold War."
So while you're busy talking about John Edwards misadventures remember the war in Iraq and a potential war in Iran isn't the only war related item you'll be voting about.