mm hmm
Like Elizabeth Warren, Rubio uses his minority status for an
advantage. He is something other than an American.
On May 14, 4:02 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I started having serious misgivings about Rubio, when Plain Ol' and I got
> into this discussion last December......Turns out, Rubio is just another
> RINO:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:26 PM
> Subject:
> To: politicalforum <PoliticalForum@googlegroups.com>
>
> As always, Pat Buchanan makes one stop and think....."Thought Provoking"
> to say the least.....
>
> Marco Rubio Versus Rand Paul By Pat Buchanan12/9/2011
>
> http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2011/12/09/creators_oped/p...
>
> In August 2008, as the world's leaders gathered in Beijing for the Olympic
> games, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, hot-headed and erratic, made
> his gamble for greatness.
>
> It began with a stunning artillery barrage on Tskhinvali, capital of tiny
> South Ossetia, a province that had broken free of Tbilisi when Tbilisi
> broke free of Russia. As Ossetians and Russian peacekeepers fell under the
> Georgian guns, terrified Ossetians fled into Russia.
>
> Saakashvili's blitzkrieg appeared to have triumphed.
>
> Until, that is, Russian armor, on Vladimir Putin's orders, came thundering
> down the Roki Tunnel into Ossetia, sending Saakashvili's army reeling. The
> Georgians were driven out of Ossetia and expelled from a second province
> that had broken free of Tbilisi: Abkhazia.
>
> The Russians then proceeded to bomb Tbilisi, capture Gori, birthplace of
> Joseph Stalin, and bomb Georgian airfields rumored to be the forward bases
> for the Israelis in any pre-emptive strike on Iran.
>
> The humiliation of Saakashvili was total, and brought an enraged and
> frustrated John McCain running to the microphones.
>
> "Today, we're all Georgians," bawled McCain.
>
> Well, not exactly.
>
> President Bush called Putin's response "disproportionate" and "brutal," but
> did nothing. Small nations that sucker-punch big powers do not get to
> dictate when the fisticuffs stop.
>
> What made this war of interest to Americans, however, was that Bush had
> long sought to bring Georgia into NATO. Only the resistance of Old Europe
> had prevented it.
>
> And had Georgia been a member of NATO when Saakashvili began his war, U.S.
> Marines and Special Forces might have been on the way to the Caucasus to
> confront Russian troops in a part of the world where there is no vital U.S.
> interest and never has been any U.S. strategic interest whatsoever.
>
> A U.S war with Russia -- over Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia -- would
> have been an act of national criminal insanity.
>
> Days later, there came another startling discovery.
>
> McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann had been paid $290,000 by
> the Saakashvili regime, from January 2007 to March 2008, to get Georgia
> into NATO, and thus acquire a priceless U.S. war guarantee to fight on
> Georgia's side in any clash with Russia.
>
> What makes this history relevant today?
>
> Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio, rising star of the Republican right, on
> everyone's short list for VP, called for a unanimous vote, without debate,
> on a resolution directing President Obama to accept Georgia's plan for
> membership in NATO at the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.
>
> Rubio was pushing to have the U.S. Senate pressure Obama into fast-tracking
> Georgia into NATO, making Tbilisi an ally the United States would be
> obligated by treaty to go to war to defend.
>
> Now it is impossible to believe a senator, not a year in office, dreamed
> this up himself. Some foreign agent of Scheunemann's ilk had to have had a
> role in drafting it.
>
> And for whose benefit is Rubio pushing to have his own countrymen committed
> to fight for a Georgia that, three years ago, started an unprovoked war
> with Russia? Who cooked up this scheme to involve Americans in future wars
> in the Caucasus that are none of our business?
>
> The answer is unknown. What is known is the name of the senator who blocked
> it -- Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, who alone stepped in and objected,
> defeating Rubio's effort to get a unanimous vote.
>
> The resolution was pulled. But these people will be back. They are
> indefatigable when it comes to finding ways to commit the blood of U.S.
> soldiers to their client regimes and ideological bedfellows.
>
> Back in 2008, however, as Bush was confining himself to protesting the
> excesses of Russia's response, his ex-U.N. ambassador was full of righteous
> rage and ready for military action.
>
> In the London Telegraph, Aug. 15, 2008, John Bolton declared that Russia
> had conducted an "invasion," that Georgia had been a "victim of
> aggression," that America had "fiddled while Georgia burned," that we had
> played the "paper tiger"when faced by the snarling Russian Bear.
>
> As for the European Union, in bringing about a ceasefire, it had achieved
> results "approaching Neville Chamberlain's moment in the spotlight at
> Munich."
>
> But did not Georgia launch the attack that started the war?
>
> "This confrontation is not about who violated the Marquis of Queensbury's
> rule in South Ossetia," scoffed Bolton. Russia planned this "rape" because
> brave little Georgia refused to be "Finlandized."
>
> Restoring America's credibility, said Bolton, now requires "drawing a clear
> line for Russia" in the Caucasus and elsewhere.
>
> And who is John Bolton?
>
> Newt Gingrich told two groups Wednesday he intends to name Bolton secretary
> of state.
>
> With Newt appointing as America's first diplomat an uber-hawk who makes
> Dick Cheney look like Gandhi, and Mitt Romney's foreign policy team
> crawling with neocons primed for war with Iran, a vote for the GOP in 2012
> looks more and more like a vote for war.
>
> Like the Bourbons of old, the Republican Party seems to have learned
> nothing and forgotten nothing.
>
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