It must be a great comfort to those slain by the savage Russian attack on the Republic of Georgia to know that our George W. Chamberlain looked into Vladimir Putin's heart and determined that the Russian leader is a good man. (Incidentally, were he not a good man his having effectively made himself Russia's president for life might lead one foolishly to conclude Putin is an autocratic despot or a dictator.)
Georgia is paying the price for having befriended the West in general and the U.S. in particular. It even joined Neville Bush's "coalition of the willing," sending its troops into Iraq alongside American soldiers.
In return our president mouths useless platitudes, mindless and futile prattlings, as a democratic ally is dismembered and its citizens are slaughtered. His bombast and vague but obviously toothless warnings are embarrassing as he clearly has neither the intention nor the means to take any effective action to reverse what the Russians have done or even to compel them to discontinue their aggression.
Georgia's bid to join NATO was rejected. The U.S. wouldn't or couldn't deliver even that. Of coarse, the comfort loving and cowardly European weasels, hoping to be eaten last by the Russian bear, didn't want to do anything that might have ruffled Mr. Putin's feathers as he was preparing to reassemble the Soviet empire.
This latest step in that endeavor has multiple benefits for Putin -- it demonstrates the resurgence of Russian power, it serves as powerful warning to other former member states of the Soviet Union that neither true independence nor friendship with the west will be permitted, and -- best of all from Mr. Putin's standpoint -- it demonstrates to all the world that the U.S. under its fawning leader and NATO have become dependent paper tigers . . . to the point of impotence . . . truly pitifully helpless giants.
The fact is that Czar Putin's actions stunned the west and disoriented and confused its leaders. Europe is dependent on Russia for energy and the U.S. needs Russian cooperation or, at least, neutrality, on Iran and in the Middle East. Accordingly, we lack the power as well as the will to counter Putin's aggression in any meaningful way, and this already has become clear to the former Soviet satellite states.
We can anticipate that our Alfred-E-Newman-like president will assure us any day now that his buddy acted or is acting in Georgia solely to champion the cause of other Russians, that the conquest of Georgia marked or will mark the end of Putin's territorial ambitions in Europe, and that with the conclusion of this adventure we will have peace in our time. He will not mention that this will be true only until Russia regains super power capabilities or that in the meantime it will without hindrance bring all of the Soviet Union's captive states back into its sphere of influence and under its domination.
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