Comments on: Post hoc http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/13/post-hoc/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter W. http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/13/post-hoc/comment-page-1/#comment-236296 Peter W. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:22:50 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4804#comment-236296 From Hugh Hewitt: http://townhall.com/Columnists/BillOReilly/2008/08/16/vlad_the_assailer Best regards, Peter Warner. From Hugh Hewitt:

http://townhall.com/Columnists/BillOReilly/2008/08/16/vlad_the_assailer

Best regards, Peter Warner.

]]> By: badbob http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/13/post-hoc/comment-page-1/#comment-236137 badbob Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:38:00 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4804#comment-236137 Skippy, Being a realist? Realist on your terms = ankle biter for the "man in the ring". re- "in the meantime just let the little drama play itself out on its own." Someday you may be the hunted on the ground about to have your freedom extinguished..It's possible. That could be real, too. I think GW has pulled one of his best plays yet. Lex's idea above is just reflex of a tactical fighter pilot (G-bless him). GW sent in the humanitarian aid, Condie and the rest of the soft skills to get Ras-Putin Jr. to back off. Meanwhile the Ukraine and the rest are joining hands and creating photo ops in Tbilisi...Cobra-eyed Putin has been out KGB'd. Of course we ain't gonna go head to head with the Rooskies over Georgia..When/if we ever do, it better be "whole hog". IMO, we can kick their "collective" (pun intended) a$$e's! ..... Like Gates said yesterday. "We spent 45 years trying to avoid war with Russia (USSR). We're not going to stop now...." b2 Skippy,

Being a realist? Realist on your terms = ankle biter for the “man in the ring”.

re- “in the meantime just let the little drama play itself out on its own.”

Someday you may be the hunted on the ground about to have your freedom extinguished..It’s possible.

That could be real, too.

I think GW has pulled one of his best plays yet. Lex’s idea above is just reflex of a tactical fighter pilot (G-bless him). GW sent in the humanitarian aid, Condie and the rest of the soft skills to get Ras-Putin Jr. to back off. Meanwhile the Ukraine and the rest are joining hands and creating photo ops in Tbilisi…Cobra-eyed Putin has been out KGB’d.

Of course we ain’t gonna go head to head with the Rooskies over Georgia..When/if we ever do, it better be “whole hog”. IMO, we can kick their “collective” (pun intended) a$$e’s! …..

Like Gates said yesterday. “We spent 45 years trying to avoid war with Russia (USSR). We’re not going to stop now….”

b2

]]> By: Skippy-san http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/13/post-hoc/comment-page-1/#comment-235827 Skippy-san Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:16:17 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4804#comment-235827 Why is it such of crime to be a realist in the ways of the world? Twas once a virtue, then came the morons staffing the project for the New American Century. It is the idealists who have it wrong, not the realists. What-exactly- do we do about Georgia? Admit them to NATO? If we do then we better make sure Turkey is hugely on board with that program, because we need them as a staging base. And as an ally that is totally comitted to the cause-if I were a Turk, I'd ask what's in for me? Cause the answer is nothing. If there is one silver lining to all this, maybe it will wake people up to the fact that a fixation on Arabs has been a misdirection of effort and assets. The great game goes on and on. Like it or not-the right move here is the one the administration seems to be doing, talk a good game and in the meantime just let the little drama play itself out on its own. Shades of Richard Nixon. ( He would have thrown the Georgians under the bus a lot sooner though.........). Why is it such of crime to be a realist in the ways of the world? Twas once a virtue, then came the morons staffing the project for the New American Century. It is the idealists who have it wrong, not the realists.

What-exactly- do we do about Georgia? Admit them to NATO? If we do then we better make sure Turkey is hugely on board with that program, because we need them as a staging base. And as an ally that is totally comitted to the cause-if I were a Turk, I’d ask what’s in for me? Cause the answer is nothing.

If there is one silver lining to all this, maybe it will wake people up to the fact that a fixation on Arabs has been a misdirection of effort and assets. The great game goes on and on.

Like it or not-the right move here is the one the administration seems to be doing, talk a good game and in the meantime just let the little drama play itself out on its own. Shades of Richard Nixon. ( He would have thrown the Georgians under the bus a lot sooner though………).

]]> By: Jim C http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/13/post-hoc/comment-page-1/#comment-235815 Jim C Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:35:30 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4804#comment-235815 RetRsvMike, True that... Jim C RetRsvMike,

True that…

Jim C

]]> By: RetRsvMike http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/13/post-hoc/comment-page-1/#comment-235781 RetRsvMike Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:53:27 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4804#comment-235781 Jim C: entirely true (but that set of circumstances would effectively preclude me from mentioning that someone else was also sounding like a dick) Jim C: entirely true (but that set of circumstances would effectively preclude me from mentioning that someone else was also sounding like a dick)

]]> By: Jim C http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/13/post-hoc/comment-page-1/#comment-235770 Jim C Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:13:31 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4804#comment-235770 RetRsvMike, Or it could be that Sakaasvilli just got sick and tired of being slapped around and provoked by SO and Russia... to the point that he didn't give a fig if the US was going to back his play. Sometimes a bully just pushes you too far, and you've got to stand up for yourself even though you know it will result in you getting your butt kicked. Jim C RetRsvMike,

Or it could be that Sakaasvilli just got sick and tired of being slapped around and provoked by SO and Russia… to the point that he didn’t give a fig if the US was going to back his play. Sometimes a bully just pushes you too far, and you’ve got to stand up for yourself even though you know it will result in you getting your butt kicked.

Jim C

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