"My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression."
- - John McCain, speaking in Aspen last night about the Russia / Georgia situation on CNN
Luckily we've had nothing to discuss politically or internationally in the last 18 or 19 years - your local high school senior has known a lifetime of complete peace and innocence.
At least now we know - Gramps wants some old-school Reagan fun, where you shift troop icons around the board and talk smack and never actually do anything out loud but scare everyone shitless, all the while sending sneakies all over the map without telling that pesky congress about it. Those were the days.
Its a good time to be Vlad Putin, or Israel, or China, or North Korea, or any garden variety nutcase. Putin's trek into Georgia has demonstrated to the world what it already knew - that the US is too spread thin to be the world's cop. Its that part of the movie where Superman becomes mortal - its time to kick some ass and do whatever they want.
We won the cold war because the Soviet Union wasn't as militarily or economically strong as they said or thought. Now Russia has lots of toys, lots of your-enemy-is-my-enemy friends, and a lot of oil money to buy more toys and more friends. We have a strained military, massive debts (to many of those same countries who don't like us), a shattered economy (especially when compared to the buying power of Europe right now), and a complete lack of sound leadership.
Attention world: the Bat Signal will go unanswered from here out.
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