Comments on: Bob Barr Talks Russia/Georgia Conflict

By: jay

jay — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:29:56 +0000

Why does the American media demonize Russia so much…?

Why does the US always seek out an Enemy to malign..?

By: Bob Aman

Bob Aman — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:12:45 +0000

Frankly, his stance is a good one. It’s not particularly friendly or diplomatic, but it is realistic, and right now we need a hard dose of realism.

I don’t like what Russia’s doing, but we don’t have any viable options available to us beyond the familiar inquiries of, “Hey, can’t we all get along?” Russia can’t be trusted, but aggressive posturing certainly isn’t going to help if we can’t back it up.

By: wj

wj — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:40:21 +0000

Perhaps a better, or at least more useful, question would be: what could the US actually do, even if we wanted to? To which the answer is, militarily, damn little. In fact, about the only thing I can see in that line that might be possible is to have the Mediterranian fleet steam up into the Black Sea for a port call on an ally.

Beyond that? Diplomatic moves (almost certainly futile; Russia doesn’t care) and economic actions (also largely futile; Europe is too dependent on Russian gas to provide any support).

And if there is nothing that we can do, what we should do is rather a moot point.