Thursday 11 September 2008

McCain's Georgian Crisis Looms Larger

Bolivia has rightly expelled the American Ambassador for formenting secessionism.

The rich, white eastern provinces of Bolivia are indeed on the brink of a Rightist secession. These are not people who speak English as their first language, as the South Ossetians speak Russian. Nor are they American citizens, as the South Ossetians are Russian citizens.

But just look at the people to whom John McCain is appealing, as Hillary Clinton did. With Robert Kagan as Secretary of State, not just diplomatic recognition, but military intervention, would be guaranteed.

After all, is this not the backyard, the near abroad?

American Ambassadors are political appointees. We know what sort of Ambassador Bush-McCain-Kagan would appoint.

Vote Obama.

2 comments:

  1. Vote Obama, if you're a Bolivian nationalist-leftist!

    By why should Americans do such a thing?

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  2. To avoid a war in Bolivia, which would lead, as much as anything else, to a disaffected Latino problem at home as virulent as any disaffected Muslim problem in Europe.

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