Well, they had
the right institutional ties, anyway.
Palin said [during the 2008 election campaign]:
After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.
For those comments, she was mocked by the high-brow Foreign Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine.
But never fear such indecision now! The President has declared that
"there will be costs" if Russia invades the Ukraine. For example, they may have to pay to fuel their tanks and trucks.
For example, they may have to pay to fuel their tanks and trucks.
ReplyDeleteAnd they'll suffer the breeze of Obama's and Kerry's very firm finger shaking.
Eric Hines
"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals". -- George Orwell, 1945, "Introduction to Animal Farm."
ReplyDelete"Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything." -Miss Hardcastle
C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength
For those who say there isn't really anything we can do, there are at least a couple things- we could immediately push to increase oil and especially natural gas production- forcing market rates down- that hurts Russia. Keystone should get signed off tomorrow if Obama cared at all about any of this. I also heard someone say something about trying to get them off the G8- but I didn't catch the details, and I'm skeptical we could even if we had support. Not sure what the ramifications of that would be either.
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