I thought when it comes to protecting democracies and defending citizens from tyrannical regimes we get all giggitty and go pre-emptive strike on some people’s asses?
Man? I’m really confused? Doesn’t Russia actually have WMD’s that can reach the US?
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration, after considerable internal debate, has decided not to take direct punitive action against Russia for its conflict with Georgia, concluding that it has little leverage if it acts unilaterally and that it would be better off pressing for a chorus of international criticism to be led by Europe.
I am so confused here? Which is it? Do we go with Europe? Or am I supposed to hate the French?
In recent interviews, senior administration officials said the White House had concluded that American punishments like economic sanctions or blocking Russia from world trade groups would only backfire, deepening Russia’s intransigence and allowing the Kremlin to narrow the regional and global implications of its invasion of Georgia to an old-fashioned Washington-Moscow dispute.
Nothing like a good finger wagging to keep a country from invading another one and killing thousand’s of humans.
In the first days of the conflict, for example, Vice President Dick Cheney reflected the view of administration hard-liners who saw Russia’s offensive as justifying their skepticism and a policy that the Kremlin’s actions would “not go unanswered.”
Uh-huh…paper tiger anyone?