McCain sees Georgian conflict as the ‘first serious crisis’ in post-Cold War era
The old man is losing his bearings. He now says:“My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.”
That's simply insane. The Carpetbagger Report:
The Cold War effectively ended 19 years ago, and the conflict between Russia and Georgia is the first serious international crisis in that time? Are you kidding me?How many more times is this man going to be allowed to talk shit in public without anyone calling him on it?
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has fought (or is fighting) two wars in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan, and two conflicts in the Balkans. There have been multiple crises in Israel. There was a burgeoning nuclear crisis with North Korea. There is, and has been, a crisis in Darfur. There have been multiple, shall we say, tense moments between Pakistan and India, nuclear powers both. One could make the argument that the attacks of Sept. 11 were, themselves, a serious international crisis.
And yet, there’s John McCain, describing a regional conflict between Russia and Georgia as the first “serious crisis internationally” since the end of the Cold War. Do the other crises simply not count? Or does McCain not remember them?
He spoke earlier today about the conflict with Russia being a threat to Georgia's "very existence". That's not a foreign policy expert talking, that's someone who doesn't understand the geopolitical tensions which Bush has unleashed in the Caucasus'.
And, again here, he glosses over the actuality that Georgia - possibly encouraged by the US - attacked South Ossetia. He says that, "Historians and time will tell us how provoked it was... What actions the Georgian government took, etc".
He needs history to tell him what happened here? He's either senile, utterly dishonest, or he's both. Personally, I'm beginning to think that he's both.
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