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To: Joe NYC who wrote (416621)	9/12/2008 11:40:37 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578590

Anyone who would advocate Georgia joining NATO after the recent behavior of GA's hot headed president has to have her head examined. And to further embroil the US into a war over the matter borders on the insane. It is this remark that borders on the insane. Your position is precisely the reason liberals cannot be trusted with foreign policy matters. As much as Palin's foreign policy background is being ridiculed, there is ZERO PERCENT CHANCE she would advocate a naive position such as yours. If you don't stop Russian aggression now you're going to have to deal with a bigger problem at a future date. Sarah Palin can see this, and I don't know why liberals cannot.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416621)	9/12/2008 11:41:02 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578590

Well, you know, the Rose Revolution, the Orange Revolution, those actions have showed us that those democratic nations, I believe, deserve to be in NATO. Again, she is following a script. Georgia may be a democracy in name but its not what we consider the ideal.......there is a great deal of corruption....votes are bought and sold. The current president has been under a great deal of criticism for the corruption in his administration. I suspect that was one of the motivating factors for his attack on S. Ossetia.......to provide a diversion. Which leads me to the second issue........why do we want to support a president who dares to attack a province that has explicitly stated for 20 years they want nada to do with GA? And he dares to do it at the doorstep of the Russian bear. I am an average American and I know that that was stupid and foolhardy move. Why doesn't Palin understand it?

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416621)	9/12/2008 11:52:09 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 1578590

The georgians need to accept arbitration for the border regions before any talk of nato. I propose Jimmy Carter as the arbitrator since he too is a Georgian. (g) Seriously though i think we need something like this. Georgians feeling aggrieved will wear thin as folks realize there were few georgians in those two provinces. Its just like kosovo and just like the serbs georgians need to get over the 16 century wars and the historical borders. Georgia cant be allowed to play the role of that serb who started WW1. This is a very local, local, local issue and the fact that georgia is more democratic than russia has little to do with solution. By the way, i think obama should have taken teds position and creamed mccain for talking war with russia. But of course big mouth biden was saying the same thing.