sometimes theres more to a battle than money

wow come on. leave them be. is sarah thinks russia needs taught a lesson i agree! they stomped over a friendly ally over a not a border dispute but because they want georgia to stop thinking of UN membership, its disgusting the way putin called us fools and haraunged us about iraq then he pulls his little strings and sends russia off to fight for what?! those 2 silly half countries within georgian territory! and because georgia wanted to be buddies with us and join the UN! its disgusting!

sometimes you have to punch a bully in the nose so he doesnt get durnk with power

by Paul Mulshine

It’s a good thing Pat Buchanan’s not dead. He’d be rolling over in his grave.

At the Republican convention, Buchanan was taken in by the mass hysteria surrounding Sarah Palin. But even as he cheered, Pat inserted a caveat. He feared that Palin would be brainwashed by the nutty neoconservatives whom Buchanan has dedicated his recent life to debunking.

Sure enough. On Thursday we heard Palin telling Charlie Gibson that “perhaps” it might be a good idea to go to war with Russia over Georgia and the Ukraine.

Going to war with Russia over some border dispute is not conservative. It’s insane, and no one has stated this more clearly than Buchanan.

“John McCain may declare, ‘We are all Georgians now!’ — but, are Americans, or Europeans, truly willing to go to war with a nuclear-armed Russia to keep Joseph Stalin’s birthplace under a regime led by an erratic hothead who launched what may be the dumbest war in history, which he lost within 24 hours?” he wrote in a column from the convention.

Buchanan had spent the first half of that column praising Palin. But he spent the second half warning that she would do exactly what she did on Thursday, endorse the loony left-wing Wilsonianism that has come to be known as “neo” conservatism.

I on the other hand had Palin pegged from the start. Maybe it’s because I wasn’t in St. Paul getting caught up by the crowd fervor. But my initial assessment was that Palin is too naïve and unsophisticated to see through the so-called “neo” conservative philosophy, the idea that it is the duty of the U.S. federal government to assure democratic government everywhere on the planet.

And I also thought that she would lack the insight to realize what’s going on in the present case concerning Georgia. There the neocons are advocating not the spread of democracy but its suppression. The Georgian government recently invaded South Ossetia precisely because a majority of the people there wanted to secede.

Of all politicians, Palin should grasp that point. We learned last week that Palin gave a warm welcoming speech to the convention of the Alaskan Independence Party, which advocates secession from the United States.

In other words, it’s okay for Alaskans to talk about leaving the U.S. But when South Ossetians talk about leaving Georgia, well why not risk starting World War III?

That’s Palin’s position. Apparently her brain didn’t need washing. A quick rinse did the trick.

MORON PERSPECTIVE ALERT: I noted in my prior posts on Palin a resurgence of the dread “moron perspective.” This is the perception that I am somehow supporting a liberal position by uttering a criticism of the Republicans from the right.

Please do not comment here unless you recognize that such paleoconservatives as Buchanan and I consider the current Republican ticket and platform to be entirely too left-wing for a number of reasons. Even if you’re a moron, for example, you have to realize that McCain’s insistence on immigration amnesty is left-wing. So is Palin’s bashing of “big oil,” etc.

If you don’t understand the difference between real conservatism and “neo” conservatism, please do not post here until you have educated yourself. I reserve the right to insert the warning “WARNING: MORON PERSPECTIVE” on any posts that fail to meet the above standards.

http://buchanan.org/blog/2008/09/palin-got-neoconned-in-record-time/

They're fighting for your right to be able to speak your mind...

It's nearly impossible to run a country without having to fight for it. We need to keep our allies, so in turn we help them. And if we pull out completely of Iraq and everywhere else we're at right now, who's to say they won't attack us here? Again? What would keep them from doing that? I support all of our troops 150% percent, and I know how it is for the families. I was married to a soldier. So I know how badly we need them home, but we have a job to do. They're well enough trained and need our support in everything that's going on. They're fighting for your right to be able to speak your mind...

om not a nationalist you dolt.