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[Nonno (Premo)]

FT.com / World - McCain condemnation upstages Bush

John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, on Monday upstaged George W. Bush’s administration over the Georgia crisis with his strongest statement so far calling on the US and its allies to come together in “universal condemnation of Russian aggression”.


Mr Cheney expressed US “solidarity” with Georgia “in the face of this threat to Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”, according to a White House account of the conversation. A spokesperson for Mr Cheney rejected suggestions that the vice-president was trying to push the administration towards a more hawkish position on the crisis, insisting he was speaking in “unison” with Mr Bush and other US officials.

Others picked up a by now familiar pattern of division and confusion within the administration, which has suffered a depletion of senior personnel and is entering its final months in office. “This crisis is a watershed moment that demands an exceptionally high quality of diplomacy and it is not clear whether this tired and distracted US administration is able to provide that,” said Sarah Mendelson, senior Russia fellow at Washington’s Centre for Strategic and International Security.

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Originally Posted by Nonno

FT.com / World - McCain condemnation upstages Bush

John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, on Monday upstaged George W. Bush’s administration over the Georgia crisis with his strongest statement so far calling on the US and its allies to come together in “universal condemnation of Russian aggression”.


Mr Cheney expressed US “solidarity” with Georgia “in the face of this threat to Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”, according to a White House account of the conversation. A spokesperson for Mr Cheney rejected suggestions that the vice-president was trying to push the administration towards a more hawkish position on the crisis, insisting he was speaking in “unison” with Mr Bush and other US officials.

Others picked up a by now familiar pattern of division and confusion within the administration, which has suffered a depletion of senior personnel and is entering its final months in office. “This crisis is a watershed moment that demands an exceptionally high quality of diplomacy and it is not clear whether this tired and distracted US administration is able to provide that,” said Sarah Mendelson, senior Russia fellow at Washington’s Centre for Strategic and International Security.

So: What does Sarah "know it all" Mendelson reccommend? I mean besides critically displaying her bias against the Bush administration. We all know these eggheads are so much brighter than the rest of us.

[dia look]

Unfortunately there is nothing we can do. The fighting will be over long before we could get troops and armor there in any numbers to make a difference. Russia has plenty of oil money, they can buy wheat from anywhere these days. The end result wil be the Russians withdrawing after a governemt more to their liking is installed in Georgia, then Georgia will be left to continue its "independence". The Ukraine is being shown an example of what happens to those who oppose the Russian Empire, and will either toe the line or be next.

[bcp (Premo)]

this is an ignorant thread