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Friday, August 08, 2008

Richard Spencer, "With Georgia, they're out of their minds," Taki's Magazine, August 8, 2008.

[Taki's is an online magazine for independent, non-interventionist, conservative Americans. -jlt]

It’s still dangerous to be allied with Uncle Sam


In response to the movement of Russian troops into Georgia this morning, State Department spokesperson Amanda Harper announced to the German press: “We support Georgia’s territorial integrity and we call for an immediate ceasefire.” Senator McCain was even more forceful, demanding, “Russia should immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw all forces from sovereign Georgian territory.”

Both statements are not only reckless but they reveal the total obliviousness of most American foreign-policy makers to the consequences of Washington’s actions since the end of the Cold War—a characterization that holds equally well for the supposed diplomats and realists in Foggy Bottom as for the neocons rallying to McCain.

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