Comments on: ‘Who Is Minding The Store, As We Party In St. Paul?’

By: John Danforth

John Danforth — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:27:05 +0000

It looks like the Idiots In Charge are maneuvering us towards a World War that we are in no position to win. The Russians ought to know, having just been through it themselves — right about the time the nation crumbles in financial ruin, the heat will be turned up. The chess pieces are being put in place, and we have been suckered into the gambit by our own delusional hubris. We will have to fight a world war or walk away from the objectives we pursued at such a high price.

I hope we have the wisdom to just walk away. I doubt whether that wisdom exists in our political sphere, on either the socialist or the fascist side.

The options for an individual to escape with his skin are narrowing quickly. Be ready to jump, if you have to. Where to, though?

–John Danforth–

By: Sage

Sage — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:59:18 +0000

"Prime Minister Putin of Russia is asking why, if this aid is humanitarian, it is being brought into the Black Sea in U.S. warships." That's because Putin is capitalizing on the ignorance of his listeners, and of people like Buchanan, who don't realize that US warships are by far the world's most effective means of delivering humanitarian aid--for example, US Navy aircraft carriers can produce thousands of gallaons of fresh water daily, store massive caches of food and medicine, and are loaded with fit and superbly trained men capable of delivering it. The same idiotic thing was said when the Navy delivered assistance to the tsnami survivors in India, by people too dumb to realize that warships aren't just loaded with weapons, but are floating cities designed to sustain huge numbers of ravenous people at sea for months on end. Putin knows this, but he also knows that men like Buchanan will be willing to pass along any dark hints and insinuations to their readers, and sow suspicion of US motives.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:02:06 +0000

There were people handing pornography at my daughter’s school’s Back To School Night last week in all 3 major languages: English, Korean, and Spanish. This included soft core (Obama) and hard core (McCain) smut. I asked the McCainiac that if he wanted to put “America first”, why was McCain and Bush sending money to Georgia Tbilisi rather than Georgia Atlanta. He said that the US always sends money overseas – and I said “Yes, but it is MY money, not McCain’s own personal money” Of course, the Republicans believe that ONLY Democrats spend money! Sadly, Buchanan may be right that we are heading to trigger World War I in the Caucasus instead of the Balkans this time. // To Tom – concerning the Monroe Doctrine: Vladimir Putin is merely applying the Roosevelt corollary:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Corollary – to Georgia. // P.S. Last week’s entire Republican convention is summed up in this wonderul Youtube excerpt from Duck Soup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAiQuj7tEGA also known as “We’re going to War”.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:12:32 +0000

I can understand the wish of the Russians to have allies on their borders, and in their region of the world, but I don't think invading neighboring nations improves the chances of their being good allies if it is against the will of the majority of the invaded people; consider the previous failure and Eastern European backlash against Soviet domination of Eastern Europe; and I don't think that the "Monroe Doctrine" was intended to promote the idea of the United States, or any other strong nation, to invade and occupy neighboring nations, even if perhaps sometimes wrongly used for that purpose, but on the contrary, to resist powerful foreign influence over weaker neighboring nations.