It’s clear the neocons view the Russian/Georgian conflict as an opportunity to rekindle the Cold War. Meanwhile, it’s been comical listening to the right-wing noise machine attempting to blame Senator Obama for the situation.
President Bush’s I got a “sense of his [Putin’s] soul” comment still haunts this crowd; it makes it much more difficult to vilify Putin when their “serious” commander-in-cheif has been yucking it up with him.
Yesterday Senator McCain said: “In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.” Today comedian Limbaugh, et al., are framing (and condeming) the conflict as Russia’s quest to control oil flows. The irony is overwhelming.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we still had the credibility to tell other governments about invading and bombing sovereign nations?
When BushCo and the Neocons unlawfully and immorally invaded Iraq all such credibility ceased to exist. As we on the Left warned it would.