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Published: August 11, 2008Posted in: Government
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Chris Obenshain has been involved in Republican politics literally since the womb, when he attended Virginia's famous 1978 Convention in utero. 30 years later he still can't get politics out of his bloodstream. He currently works as a lawyer in southwest Virginia and serves as Chairman of the Roanoke Area Young Republicans chapter. As Old Zach, he helped found the blog Sic Semper Tyrannis in 2004 and has been blogging off and on ever since. He has also proudly served in the United States Army Reserve since 2002. 
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“Just when oil prices started dropping, there was another pipeline disruption in Nigeria. And then terrorists hit the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, taking another ¾ of a million barrels/day of non-OPEC oil off the market. And then the war broke out in South Ossetia and the Russian Air Force bombed the BTC line and the Georgians started screaming the war was a Russian play for oil. All the shipments out of the oil-rich Caspian region are now threatened – except, perhaps, the oil shipped east to China.”
http://newenergynews.blogspot.com/2008/08/uk-building-wind-with-both-hands.html
Barry Obama thinks if he can solve this crisis that he can carry Georgia’s 15 electoral college votes. That’s why he has said the Alabama National Guard should be called in before the Russians reach Atlanta.
Did you actually write “Soviet”? Too funny.
That said – nice to see a post about this important issue. Russians have been occupying Georgian land since the early 90s under the auspieces of “peacekeeping”. It is time for newly empowered Russia to recognize the soverignty and international boundaries of its neighbor.
The problem for us is, what do we do? We have no military power left to extend, we need Russia’s support in our actions against Iran and as a counterweight to China, we are in a serious bind. Georgia has been a good ally – and is deserving of our support. But – other than diplomacy, I’m not sure what else our nation could do. Although, the President sitting at a swimming event – and only letting Bob Costas interview him over the weekend didn’t help matters. We really need a Presidential President – ASAP.
Unfortunately, you weaken the post’s worth by overstating McCain’s foreign policy resume. I realize you want/ need to believe that McCain has some experience in this realm, but it simply isn’t true. Heck, he still doesn’t know whose side Al Qaeda is on.
Russia should get Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Instead of having to deal with three separate corrupt dictators, we could consolidate our dealings with W’s pal, Pooty-poot. You guys remember Putin, the guy about who W said, “Hey, I looked into his eyes and we can deal with this fella.”
So, there you have it. Nothing to worry about. W is still, “The Decider-in-Chief.”
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Ragnar,
First of all, I was referencing the former Soviet Union, so that was accurate. I don’t see what’s so funny about Putin’s territorial desires.
Second, how did I overstate McCain’s foreign policy resume? I stated that he has more experience and understanding of the issues and players involved than Obama. That much is starkly evident just in their responses to the news. I’ll gladly put McCain’s resume on these issues up against Obama’s any day of the week.
Experience does not equal judgement (Douglas Feith?). Rumsfeld’s DoD more than demonstrated that.
Sure, McCain has more experience – the man’s been in Washington for 25+ years! But many would argue that its just this sabre rattling that contritbuted to Saakashvili’s (misplaced) confidence that the US and/or NATO would militarily back any action he took in South Ossetia or Abkhazia.
Whoops.