Although this article offers a big perspective necessary to an understanding of the Georgian crisis, it's less about Georgia and more about the way the US expansionist juggernaut goes forward with bipartisan support--and without debate or media coverage. The writer and site have a definite liberal bias, but billmon is critical of Clinton, Biden, etc. and cites conservative scholars like Anatol Levin and Andrew Bacevich. Clearly the issue doesn't fit into the right/left dichotomy. Ron Paul and Bob Barr are likely to be more wary of NATO expansion than either Obama or McSame.

I usually like Daily Kos, but this writer should have kept quiet if he's "no foreign policy maven" as he admits and prefers watching women in swimsuits bouncing balls instead. How many times can he explain that Georgia is a country? Or belittle this by calling it "obscure". Sure, snarky commentary about how dumb Americans are is all fine, but get to the point of your article! Once he gets to his point it improves, but I can't say I agree with his analysis. I admittedly did not know much about any of the NATO stuff, so that was interesting. But as someone who is quite wary of Putin and his attempts to hold/gain power by any means necessary - I did not see America's actions as all being motivated by NATO issues & Republican's ... More »