What an outrage! America on the side lines again - what happened to our pride? Where is the men and women that will stand up and say " we won't tolerate this attack on one of our allies that is a free nation". But it seems that it is always easier to abandon our friends than to take the responsibility for our own words and philosophies. How did we get to this point?
I don't have the right words to express my disappointment and frustration in how my country is turning it's back on all of the basic fundamentals of freedom and Democracy. How our own government harbors Marxist socialists and pawns them off as senators and representatives of the people - upholders of our sacred constitution. Here again, are the people rising up to protest these monsters in our congress?
Witness the house of representatives refusing to vote on the energy bill - Democrats. socialists, Nancy Pelosi, want the country to disintegrate into kos to gain votes in the fall. Do they care that thousands of jobs that are being lost and savings accounts are running on empty? Hell no! Remember- it's all about gaining power - the people are only puppets to be manipulated.
I never thought we would come to this place in time where, we as Americans, didn't care who or what we stand for. We seem to lost our way.
Ralph Peters does a great job here, as always, pointing out our responsibilities to the country and the free world. We do have these responsibilities as the only real 'super power' in the world. It is imperative the we demonstrate to the world that we are still the best chance for freedom that exists for anyone that wants to be free.
Right now we are a disgrace and it's not all the governments fault. It really falls mostly on the us, the people that supposedly have the power to tell the government what to do. Apparently we just don't care enough or we are just to ignorant of past our history.
Keep the faith, we have to fight the good fight every day to make things happen for our country.
RUSSIA GOES ROGUE
By RALPH PETERS
August 12, 2008 --
IT'S impossible to overstate the importance of what's unfolding as we watch. Russia's invasion of Georgia - a calculated, unprovoked aggression - is a crisis that may have more important strategic implications than Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
We're seeing the emergence of a rogue military power with a nuclear arsenal.
The response of our own government has been pathetic - and our media's uncritical acceptance of Moscow's version of events is infuriating.
LATEST NEWS: Russia Calls for Halt in Action
This is the "new" Russia announcing - in blood - that it won't tolerate freedom and self-determination along its borders. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is putting it bluntly: Today, Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine (and the Baltic states had better pay attention).
Georgia's affiliation with the European Union, its status as a would-be NATO member, its working democracy - none of it deterred Putin.
Nor does Putin's ambition stop with the former Soviet territories. His air force has been trying (unsuccessfully) to hit the new gas pipeline running from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. The Kremlin is telling Europe: We not only have the power to turn off Siberian gas, we can turn off every tap in the region, any time we choose.
Let's be clear: For all that US commentators and diplomats are still chattering about Russia's "response" to Georgia's actions, the Kremlin spent months planning and preparing this operation. Any soldier above the grade of private can tell you that there's absolutely no way Moscow could've launched this huge ground, air and sea offensive in an instantaneous "response" to alleged Georgian actions.
As I pointed out Saturday, even to get one armored brigade over the Caucasus Mountains required extensive preparations. Since then, Russia has sent in the equivalent of almost two divisions - not only in South Ossetia, the scene of the original fighting, but also in separatist Abkhazia on the Black Sea coast.
The Russians also managed to arrange the instant appearance of a squadron of warships to blockade Georgia. And they launched hundreds of air strikes against preplanned targets.
Every one of these things required careful preparations. In the words of one US officer, "Just to line up the airlift sorties would've taken weeks."
Working through their mercenaries in South Ossetia, Russia staged brutal provocations against Georgia from late July onward. Last Thursday, Georgia's president finally had to act to defend his own people.
But when the mouse stirred, the cat pounced.
The Russians know that we know this was a setup. But Moscow's Big Lie propagandists still blame Georgia - even as Russian aircraft bomb Georgian homes and Russian troops seize the vital city of Gori in the country's heart.
And Russian troops also grabbed the Georgian city of Zugdidi to the west - invading from Abkhazia on a second axis.
Make no mistake: Moscow intends to dismember Georgia.
This is the most cynical military operation by a "European" power since Moscow invaded Afghanistan in 1979. (Sad to say, President Bush seems as bewildered now as President Jimmy Carter did then.)
This attack's worse, though. Georgia is an independent, functioning democracy tied to the European Union and striving to join NATO. It also has backed our Iraq efforts with 2,000 troops. (We're airlifting them back home.)
This invasion recalls Hitler's march into Czechoslovakia - to protect ethnic Germans, he claimed, just as Putin claims to be protecting Russian citizens - complete BS.
It also resembles Hitler's invasion of Poland - with the difference that, in September '39, European democracies drew the line. (To France's credit, its leaders abandoned their August vacations to call Putin out - only Sen. Barack Obama remains on the beach.)
Yet our media gave Putin the benefit of the doubt.
Not one major news outlet even bothers to take issue with Putin's wild claim that the Georgians were engaged in genocide.
I lack sufficiently powerful words to express my outrage over Russia's bloody cynicism in attacking a small, free people, or to castigate our media for their inane coverage - or to condemn our own government's shameful flight from responsibility.
Just as Moscow has reverted to its old habit of sending in tanks to snuff out freedom, Washington has defaulted to form by abandoning Georgia to the invasion - after encouraging Georgia to stand up to the Kremlin.
Reminds me of 1956, when we encouraged the Hungarians to defy Moscow - then abandoned them.
And of 1991, when we prodded Iraq's Shia to rise up against Saddam - then abandoned them.
We've called Georgia a "friend and ally." Well, honorable men and states stand by their friends and allies. We haven't.
Oh, we sure are giving those Russians a tongue-lashing. I'll bet Putin's just shaking as he faces the awesome verbal rage of Condi Rice. President Bush? He went to a basketball game.
The only decent thing we've done was to reveal, at the UN, that the Russians tried to cut a deal with us to remove Georgia's president.
Shame on us.
Ralph Peters' latest book, "Looking for Trouble," details his own adventures in Georgia.
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