Marco Rubio vs. Rand Paul by Pat Buchanan

I've heard Rubio being interviewed a couple of times, and he comes across as a lightweight. He seems to be kind of a bought and paid for fake tea-party mouth piece. I could be wrong, but that is my inclination at this point.

This is a very important matter. The consequences could be far greater than meets the eye.

Buchanan does an excellent job explaining and exposing this dangerous foolishness. Marco Rubio may simply be an ignorant patsy rather than delusional, but whoever is actually behind this madness is playing with nuclear fire.

What in the world could be the motive behind trying to push Georgia into NATO let alone trying to fast-track it? In order to comply with NATO admittance, Georgia would need to recognize the sovereignty of Abkhazia and Ossetia because NATO admittance requires there be no territorial or border disputes prior to entry. That is one of the reasons old guard NATO refused its admission previously when the USA pushed for it. That’s what previously led to the US arming and funding with foreign aid and training and providing military advisors to Georgia for several years.

This US funding and military aid prepped Georgia for its unilateral breach of its 1996 treaty with South Ossetia when in 2008 Georgia launched a bombing raid of the capital city of Tsinkvalli followed by a full scale military invasion using US and Israeli made weapons and training. This aggressive warfare was to eliminate Ossetia to remove the border objection to Georgia’s admission to NATO. It also revealed US’s proxy president Saakashvilli to be a warmongering madman which is a much stronger reason for preventing Georgia from entering NATO. Both parties to that 1996 treaty by the way chose Russia as the designated intermediary peacekeeper.

Georgia’s bombing attack and invasion by the way killed some 1500 civilian Russia citizens present in Ossetia at the time. With US funding, US weapons, US training and US military advisors, this was a proxy war whether the US actually gave the specific instruction or not. How would the US have responded to the killing of 1500 US citizens? It does not take a genius to predict that this will guarantee a response. The consequences are logically predictable to anyone with half a brain. It is bad enough that the US government likes to go sticking its head into hornet nests and viper dens in the middle-east. Getting stung from such acts is one thing, but going around poking your fingers in the eyes of a bear is just plain suicide. Yet, compared to US actions, Russia’s response was highly restrained. Nevertheless Bush and the neocons had the gall to criticize Russia (the designated peacekeeper chosen by both sides) for being “disproportionate” in its response. Well, when you start a war, violate treaties, bomb cities, kill people and invade other territories you are not entitled to demand others involved limit to “proportionate” response.

Compare Russia’s response under the circumstances to the US total invasion, takeover and continued occupation of Afghanistan a decade later launched for the stated purpose to pursue a wanted criminal. Or the US total invasion, takeover and continued occupation of Iraq launched for the stated purpose to pursue specific weapons that never existed. Like the boy who cried wolf, the US government has forfeited all credibility. The US government trying to criticize Russia for being “disproportionate” in responding to Georgia’s bombing and invasion of Ossetia and killing of 1500 Russian citizens is like Newt The Gingrich trying to criticize Dr. Paul for being too fat or inconsistent. It doesn’t fly.

With the prior push for Georgia admittance into NATO ending in such horrible consequences, why the surreptitious push through Rubio to do it again, and on “fast-track” no less? It is still run by the madman Saakashvilli. It has nothing to offer NATO. It presents a lot of risk to NATO. It is not even part of Western Europe for which is still the purpose for the existence of NATO. Why were at this questioning, why push for expansion or even continuation of this international conglomerate NATO at all. Its creation and sole purpose was to protect Western Europe from expansion by the Soviet Union. Well the Soviet Union is gone. The Soviet Union does not exist anymore. It was defeated from within by its own people once the system crumbled via the laws of economics. Now it is time to try a little trade, and commerce, and communication, and travel, and culture, and friendship and goodwill, and promoting prosperity and liberty and peace.

It is as if the objective of certain factions in the US government is to intentionally provoke conflict and instigate warfare.

Lest anyone dispute what happened at the exact moment the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremonies were unfolding, refer to the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7546639.stm

Georgian forces and South Ossetian separatists have been exchanging heavy fire just hours after agreeing to a ceasefire and Russian-mediated talks.

Russian media reports said Georgia had launched a tank-led attack on the separatist stronghold of Tskhinvali, and airstrikes on rebel positions.

Georgia says it aims to finish "a criminal regime" and restore order.

At least 15 people are reported dead. Moscow called on the world community to work "to avert massive bloodshed".
At Russia's request, members of the UN Security Council are holding a rare emergency session to discuss a response to the escalating violence.

The BBC's Matthew Collin in Tbilisi says there has been a series of huge explosions and rocket fire in and around Tskhinvali.

Hundreds of fighters from Russia and Georgia's other breakaway region of Abkhazia are reportedly heading to aid the separatist troops.

Total provocation by a cocaine-snorting democracy-crushing dictator who just happens to be best buddies with Trump.

http://www.theplanningboardroom.net/trump-signs-deal-to-deve...

In a ceremony with caviar and wine at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Thursday, Mr. Trump signed a deal to develop the two tallest towers in the republic of Georgia, the former Soviet state at the nexus of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Giving his blessing to the deal was Mikheil Saakashvili, the flamboyant, English-speaking president of Georgia. Mr. Saakashvili is eager to attract foreign investment as he tries to yank his impoverished country from the Russian orbit and align it more closely with the United States.

Mr. Trump, the world’s first virtual developer, will not actually build the towers. At this point in his career, he is more inclined to license use of the Trump name on someone else’s building than develop a property himself.

Can anyone say "FAKE!!"?

Rand Paul is doing superior work as a U.S. Senator...

Pat Buchanan rocks it, again...I like Pat, and he will be a great ally in the media.

Georgia invaded South Ossetia with arms it got from the west. When have we seen this before?

The audacity of the west arming a country which borders the country that is still without question in possession of the world's second strongest military and which is by no means as weak as the main stream media and the neocons would want us to believe is simply an act of madness. Had Russia, in 2008, wanted to invade and hold Georgia Russia most certainly could have done so.

The lie we are still being told is that Russia did invade Georgia. This is simply untrue. Georgia invaded South Ossetia and Russia came to the aid of South Ossetia to repel an illegal invasion and resource grab by Georgia which NATO and the UN did nothing to stop but in fact encouraged by arming the Georgians which enabled them to act in the criminal manner the Georgians displayed. After kicking the Georgians out of sovereign South Ossetia, Russia left.

Had Georgia been in NATO at the time, we very well would have been obligated by treaty to come to Georgia's aid in supporting it's illegal invasion of South Ossetia which would have put us on the battlefield facing Russia which, to anyone who isn't a completely ill-informed moron, is madness.

Newt Gingrich told two groups Wednesday he intends to name Bolton secretary of state.

"With Newt appointing as America’s first diplomat an uber-hawk who makes Dick Cheney look like Gandhi, and Mitt Romney’s foreign policy team crawling with neocons primed for war with Iran, a vote for the GOP in 2012 looks more and more like a vote for war."
http://buchanan.org/blog/marco-rubio-vs-rand-paul-4959