Eighteen hours since Barack Obama laid out the strategy by which the United States will defeat Al Qa’eda and “terrorists” in Afghanistan, 24 hours after we projected both the Administration’s approach and the problems with it, I have to say….
Journalist Mark Ames offers observations and analysis of the Russian-Georgian conflict which are provocative (“America deftly organized and orchestrated the so-called Rose Revolution” in Georgia in 2003), revealing (“foreign-desk editors back home have been demanding proof of Russian evil, after largely ignoring Georgia’s war crimes in South Ossetia”), and illuminating (“after years in which Russia rebuilt itself on the back of soaring commodity prices (today it’s the world’s largest producer of oil), our advantages in global power politics have started to tilt Putin’s way”).
It is his conclusion, however, that deserves most attention:
Russia…is as high as a Hollywood speedballer from its victory. Putting the two together in the same room — speedballing Russia and violently bad-tripping America — is a recipe for serious disaster. If we’re lucky, we’ll survive the humiliating decline and settle into the new reality without causing too much damage to ourselves or the rest of the world. But when that awful moment arrives where the cognitive dissonance snaps hard, it will be an epic struggle to come to our senses in time to prevent the William Kristols, Max Boots and Robert Kagans from leading us into a nuclear holocaust which, they will assure us, we can win against Russia, thanks to our technological superiority.
Eighteen hours since Barack Obama laid out the strategy by which the United States will defeat Al Qa’eda and “terrorists” in Afghanistan, 24 hours after we projected both the Administration’s approach and the problems with it, I have to say….
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