Russia is not our friend

Contributed by: filbert Sunday, August 10 2008 @ 05:27 PM CST

I think that much is certain, watching Russian forces move into the (breakaway) Georgian province of South Ossetia, and watching Russian air strikes hit in and around Georgian cities that are not South Ossetia.

These two paragraphs from the New York Times[*1] , no warmongering rag, should give everybody pause right now:

In Washington, American officials reacted with deepening alarm to Russia’s military activities on Sunday. Georgian troops had tried to disengage, but the Russians had not allowed them.

“The Georgians told them, ‘We’re done. Let us withdraw,” one American military official said. “But the Russians are not letting them withdraw. They are pursuing them, and people are seeing this.”

This is not anything like the American adventure in Iraq.  It’s eerily similar to the Sudetenland, 1938[*2] .

The free world will stand up to aggression now, or we will fight a bigger war, later.  I am not hopeful tonight that we will make the correct, difficult choice.  We shall see.