Entries from August 17, 2008 - August 23, 2008
The cause of Serbia is the cause of us all
If I might dare to quote that American patriot, Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America:
Caedmon
in What is to be done?, The Demise of Europe
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Why Serbia will win III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwsN4tnvnE&feature=related (This is an exceedingly cool video.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nSSHnkw39Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kY7tF1k3Z8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_kanfUmVE&feature=related
(And all of Orthodox Europe with it.)
Victor Davis Hanson: Waste of Space
Victor Davis Hanson, one of the least impressive of all the neocons talking heads, has chimed in regarding Russian's actions against Georgia . Here's Hanson's insuperable wisdom on the matter:
Meanwhile who can figure out the politics here at home? Bush—who inherited (and continued a policy) from Clinton of expanding NATO to the east, integrating the former Soviet republics into the West, and isolating Serbia—is to be criticized both for doing too much in poking the Russian Bear while, being mesmerized by Putin's eyes, not doing enough to help Georgia?
Once again for the Left, if it is a question of supporting Democratic states and those in them from tyrants—or finding new creative ways of blaming the United States first—well, the answer is a no-brainer.
And from paleos one expected a sort of ' Georgia 's bigmouth stuck his neck in a noose, so let him hang' , but the near gleeful admiration for the way 'ole Putin 'took care of business' in his backyard was over the top even for them.
That last sentence is a model of clarity, is it not? The paleos' gleeful admiration for the way Putin took care of business was over the top even for them? Huh?
My reading of paleo commentary leads me to conclude that they are still in pretty much a "told-you-so" mode, accompanied by a lot of shoulder shrugging over the strikes into Georgia itself. If anything marks paleoconservatism, it is an undying sense of realism, and most of us here on the hard right are therefore not surprised that Russia would go the brutal extra mile in pressing its long overdue point. It's what Russians do, in the first place. And in the second place, Our Imperial Handlers are largely responsible for it.
As for the possible sudden halt to NATO's program to expand Eastward, well, that looks to be a clear instance of the chickens coming home to roost.
Let the pseudocons rant and rave about it all. The Bear is back. They can just get used to it.
