tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569061344706051270.post1340984949542129935..comments2023-09-27T02:27:01.435-05:00Comments on Strong Moderate: Medvedev to World: I'm just imitating Bush!Strong Moderatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890776139495152899noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569061344706051270.post-63746260867370316492008-08-22T02:10:00.000-05:002008-08-22T02:10:00.000-05:00Precedence? That is something like 'History repeat...Precedence? That is something like 'History repeats itself'... I dunno if I am still alive and see when US lose th epower it is holding now. But actually, i think its people are suffering.. it is just wearing a mask showing to the world its power. How about those people losing houses? Your dollar sinking? I think it's time to wake up. People first eìrather than spend billions for armaments and amunitions!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569061344706051270.post-91917845763277590492008-08-22T02:07:00.000-05:002008-08-22T02:07:00.000-05:00The damage cannot be undone. How about the lives o...The damage cannot be undone. How about the lives of thousands? What can you say about it? Talking about USA, I think it is a shame for Americans to have these foreign policy that USA ALWAYS BUTT IN in anything the world is doing. It is making a business of something that is not his own.<BR/><BR/>In fact, what I can say is, sometimes, many just hate USA for being so, a sad reality to the americans for NOT all of them are the same as their leaders' attitudes.zxvAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569061344706051270.post-35928873032836621402008-08-20T01:07:00.000-05:002008-08-20T01:07:00.000-05:00Chris! Anthony! I'm glad you joined the debate. ...<B>Chris! Anthony!</B> I'm glad you joined the debate. I couldn't get back to you as quickly as I'd have liked to because I was traveling.<BR/><BR/><B>Chris</B>, The moral equivalence and precedent arguments do hold, here's why. Russia has painted the Georgian President as a murderer who wishes to commit genocide against the poor people of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. So they have created a reality of their own where they (a so-called "democracy") have swept in to protect the people from a crazed 'killer'. <BR/><BR/>A very big problem with your logic is that you don't create any kind of dichotomy with your terms. You say that the Iraqi War was democracy vs. dictator and that the Georgian conflict is dictator vs. sovereign democracy however those terms aren't opposites or necessarily even in the same category. All of the countries involved in your analogy are (or were until invaded) sovereign. So to say that somehow because a country is ruled by a dictator not a liberal democracy that country has lost its sovereignty you have made a grave error in judgment. <BR/><BR/>In conclusion, remember the term "precedent" means that you act based on an example with <B><I>similar</I></B> instances. Russia has made the claim that the instances are similar (the protection of a people from "genocide") and thus believe they have the right to take similar action (invading and leaving troops to create buffer zones). The two conflicts are different in so many ways.. but as long as Russia has the opportunity they will call both conflicts <I>similar</I>.<BR/><BR/><B>Anthony</B>, when Putin first opposed the Iraq War he was scared. Very scared. If the US could just pick any damn dictator it pleased and plucked him out of power at the drop of the hat Russia has a lot of stooges to loose. Putin though.. is a smart, clever and cunning man. He decided to turn the War on Terror(ists) on its head and use the exact same reasons and excuses to do something he'd been wanting to do for a decade: punish breakaway Soviet republics that sided with the US after a half century of Soviet oppression instead of embracing Mother Russia and installing puppets. The problem is that we here in the US are too distracted with the elections, Olympics and the fact that our President is a lame-duck with almost zero pull left in the State Dept or the World to do much... Also, now any criticism from the Bush Administration looks like hypocrisy.. it's a sad state that the neo-conservative movement has put our foreign policy in. Very, very sad. We can't even stand up for the little guy anymore.Strong Moderatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01890776139495152899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569061344706051270.post-67702953297422802122008-08-18T11:02:00.000-05:002008-08-18T11:02:00.000-05:00Ah, so when you disagree with the Iraq war it's ba...Ah, so when you disagree with the Iraq war it's bad, unless you are doing the same thing. Makes sense Putin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569061344706051270.post-12467810552429327022008-08-17T19:30:00.000-05:002008-08-17T19:30:00.000-05:00The moral equivalence argument doesn't hold water....The moral equivalence argument doesn't hold water.<BR/><BR/>There is a vast difference between a democracy which deposes a murderous dictator and a dictatorship which invades a sovereign democracy.<BR/><BR/>Precedent has nothing to do with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com