"We Are All Georgians"? Not So Fast

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/article/we-are-all-georgians-not-so-fast

Sunday 17 August 2008

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by: Michael Dobbs, The Washington Post


It didn't take long for the "Putin is Hitler" analogies to start following the eruption of the ugly little war between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia. Neoconservative commentator Robert Kagan compared the Russian attack on Georgia with the Nazi grab of the Sudetenland in 1938. President Jimmy Carter's former national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, said that the Russian leader was following a course "horrifyingly similar to that taken by Stalin and Hitler in the 1930s."

Others invoked the infamous Brezhnev doctrine, under which Soviet leaders claimed the right to intervene militarily in Eastern Europe in order to prop up their crumbling imperium. "We've seen this movie before, in Prague and Budapest," said John McCain, referring to the Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Hungary in 1956. According to the Republican presidential candidate,"today we are all Georgians."

[patrice]

1. Yeah, afterall it's our great moral failing that we have no "higher purpose", so why not?

Crash and the Re :puke: s are divinely decreed to be those to give the rest of us that "higher purpose".

:sarcasm:

[katandmoon]

2. Let's ask the Osettians.

[Bobcat]

3. Putin Is Hitler?

If Putin is Hitler what does that make Bush? Why..... Chamberlain of course. If Bush "looked into his eyes and saw his soul" as he indicated in a favorable evaluation of Putin, then he is the "great appeaser" of the 21st century.

[baldguy]

4. Not Chamberlain - Stalin.

Allies, until the time to attack comes.

You see, Putin actually won an election to become leader of his country.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

5. We all are responsible for invading South Ossetia

because Cheney, Perle and the Israelis told us to?

I think not.