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To: Alighieri who wrote (408004)	8/19/2008 12:48:18 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573921

The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO. Had Georgia been in NATO when Mikheil Saakashvili invaded South Ossetia, we would be eyeball to eyeball with Russia, facing war in the Caucasus, where Moscow's superiority is as great as U.S. superiority in the Caribbean during the Cuban missile crisis. If the Russia-Georgia war proves nothing else, it is the insanity of giving erratic hotheads in volatile nations the power to drag the United States into war. From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, U.S. presidents have sought to avoid shooting wars with Russia, even when the Bear was at its most beastly. Well at least there are some on the right who are relatively sane.

To: Alighieri who wrote (408004)	8/19/2008 2:02:06 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573921

" When Brezhnev ordered his Warsaw satraps to crush Solidarity and shot down a South Korean airliner killing scores of U.S. citizens, including a congressman, Reagan did – nothing." This is obviously revisionist history. We have been assured that Reagan would never have taken such an insult laying down. He was Stand Tall and aggressively confronting the USSR at every turn...