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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(Again, repost this meme) Who’s the Villain Here? by Nicholas Kristof
Whos the Villain Here?by Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/opinion/kristof-whos-the-villain-here.html
"SNIP.................................
We have a weak and indecisive president that invites aggression, scolded Senator Lindsey Graham (revealing his own weakness: grammar). President Obama needs to do something!
Likewise, Senator John McCain complains that Obamas foreign policy is feckless, so that nobody believes in Americas strength anymore.
Representative Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, worries that Russia is running circles around us. The Washington Post warns in a stinging editorial that President Obamas foreign policy is based on fantasy. The Wall Street Journal cautions that the basic problem is Obamas retreat from global leadership.
Oh, come on! The villain here is named Putin, not Obama, and we should have learned to feel nervous when hawks jump up and down and say do something! We tried that in Iraq. When there are no good options, a flexing of muscles by NATO or by American warships in the Black Sea would only reinforce President Vladimir Putins narrative to his home audience while raising the risk of conflict by accident or miscalculation.
...............................SNIP"
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(Again, repost this meme) Who’s the Villain Here? by Nicholas Kristof (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2014
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Graham and McCain have backed down from their statements. The slack has been picked up by
okaawhatever
Mar 2014
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okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)1. Graham and McCain have backed down from their statements. The slack has been picked up by
rwnj who aren't elected. I'm wondering if polling told Graham and McCain don't appreciate it when Americans legislators trash their President during times of international conflict?
None of the options are good, but we have to look down the road. We ignored the Georgia conflict and now Russia has five bases in the new regions. That will affect our ability to take out nuclear facilities in Iran should they decide to go for the bomb. All the actions have consequences, we can't pretend like there's an easy answer here. Even if McCain and Graham try to make you think so.
lob1
(3,820 posts)2. The jerks like McCain and Graham that hold up Putin as a role model
scare the hell out of me. They're villains, too.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)3. Kristof thinks we should have been more involved in Syria, which--NO!
Syria was a murky trap that we avoided, for the most part. Let Russia own THAT problem child. But otherwise he's right.