Posted by fayeroe on August 14, 2008, at 9:13:43
In reply to Re: Newsmax » fayeroe, posted by Sigismund on August 13, 2008, at 20:39:08
________There are telltale signs that he played a similar role in the recent Georgia flare-up. How else to explain the folly of his close friend and former employer, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, in ordering an invasion of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, an invasion that clearly was expected to produce a Russian counterreaction? It is inconceivable that Saakashvili would have triggered this dangerous escalation without some assurance from influential Americans he trusted, like Scheunemann, that the United States would have his back. Scheunemann long guided McCain in these matters, even before he was officially running foreign policy for McCain's presidential campaign.
Starting what they did makes me think of something that I have seen over and over at rodeos. The "pickup" man (horseback) will have difficult getting a big bull back into the pens and finally he ropes it. I would always stand there and wonder "now what are you going to do with it?"...The bull will either go quietly (ha!) or charge the horse. Horses are very smart..they rarely stick around for the party. And sometimes cowboys aren't very smart.
I did wonder why they would do that without someone "bigger" helping out.....very interesting.
Boy, our government officials sure have friends in interesting places. :-)
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