"Republicans Blow The Response To Putin's Aggression"

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/03/03/republicans-blow-the-response-to-putins-aggression/

"If, somehow, Putin was led to believe that there would be no significant economic price to pay in response to his actions—as noted, nobody, including those in the GOP who never met a war they didn’t like, believes there is a military option on the table—why would he be looking at Obama?

It wasn’t President Obama who failed to do much of anything at all when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008. That would be President George W. Bush. And while I know that the reaction to this statement on the part of some will be to carp that I am just one more Obama apologist who wants to blame Bush for everything, I’m afraid one cannot escape history—and history tells us in great clarity that, just six years ago, Putin experienced the opportunity to invade a neighboring nation without any real US or European response whatsoever.

It may be great political fodder for Republicans to blame a president that super-hawk John McCain has now called “the most naïve president in US history” but it certainly appears that it is actually the John McCain line of reasoning that has been hobbled by naivety. Your first clue that this is the case would be the unwillingness of any of the President’s critics to offer up anything in the way of a sophisticated explanation as to how things might have been different had Obama played it rough and tough with Putin."

[rock]

1. "blame Bush for everything"

Unfortunately, bush* did nearly cause every problem we have. It's hard to avoid the truth of reality.

[Cha]

2. Republicons have shown time and time again that they hate America..

why would this be any different?

[lamp_shade]

3. K&R... Grrrrreat article.

[reformist2]

4. Smart Republicans are starting to see how dangerously moronic their rhetoric has become.

Too bad for them that they no longer are in control of their party - the lunatics are running that insane asylum now.

[11 Bravo]

5. You could have stopped two words into your thread title.

[Scuba]

6. You had me at "Republicans blow".