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Obama Turns More Hawkish On Georgia Conflict
Newshoggers.com — ... It looks, at first glance, like Obama's been listening too hard to old Cold Warriors like Zbigniew Brzezinski, who wants to compare Putin to Stalin and Hitler. (Is it required by American hawks that any foreign leader they don't like be compared to Stalin and Hitler?) He's also backed McCain's call to throw Russia out of the G8, saying the G8 Group is "an impotent fiction anyway", and add Georgia to the NATO membership action plan forthwith - so that the West is obligated to get militarily involved next time out too! ...

Russian Troops Drive Further into Georgia
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — ... The whole situation is taking on a rather ominous tone. In an interview, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said the following: ...

SUNDAY ROUNDUP
News — ... someone in public life, writes the Top of the Ticket's Andrew Malcolm , who notes that Bush did slap the small of her back. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Surprise! Obama Flip-Flops on Russian War - Gateway Pundit [image] 'Meaningless Statements' - John Hinderaker, Power Line [image] Obama Turns More Hawkish - Cernig, Newshoggers [image] Russia, Georgia and McCain's Belligerence - S. Benen, Carpetbagger [image] Brzezinski: Attack Reminiscent of Stalin's - N. Gardels, HuffPo [image] Was Mark Penn ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Russia and Georgia:
The Volokh Conspiracy — Former Carter National Security Adviser and longtime Russia expert Zbigniew Brzezinski has some interesting comments on Russia's war with Georgia in this interview . I'm not sure that the situation requires as forceful a Western response as Brzezinski argues for. However, he is right to suggest that Russia's offensive - ...

God help us, but this is supposed to be one of their *hard-line* natsec people.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — I had hopes, [expletive deleted] it. I mean, with a title like: "BRZEZINSKI: RUSSIA'S INVASION OF GEORGIA IS REMINISCENT OF STALIN'S ATTACK ON FINLAND," (via Glenn) it's not too much to hope that somebody in the Obama campaign gets it, right? Then you get to the meat. Well, the tofu. All bolding mine: Gardels: Is the West obliged to help Georgia resist the Russian attack with some kind of military support? Brzezinski: The question is not what obligation the West may have at the ...

GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Right Wing Nut House — ... since time immemorial. The next president had better be ready. That’s from the neo-con right – a not unexpected analysis and perhaps Kagan is being overly dramatic by comparing August 8 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. But there is absolutely no doubt that a fundamental change has been wrought by this Russian action – especially if they keep up the attack on Georgia and affect regime change. From the center-left, Zbigniew Brzezinski from an interview at Huffpo: Fundamentally at stake is what kind of role Russia will ...

The Telling Gloss
Newshoggers.com — ... because it's especially true - although it's becoming a bit more true as time goes on and Russia keeps pushing beyond the natural "stop line" of a purely "status quo ante" operation - but because it plays to their own prejudices better. They're trying to decide whether Putin (who is still the real President of Russia even if his name tag now says "prime minister", as this crisis has shown) is the new Stalin, the new Hitler or both. Not that this is a surprise, as both the big 20th century bugbears are ...

The Telling Gloss
At-Largely — ... president's narrative. Not because it's especially true - although it's becoming a bit more true as time goes on and Russia keeps pushing beyond the natural "stop line" of a purely "status quo ante" operation - but because it plays to their own prejudices better. They're trying to decide whether Putin (who is still the real President of Russia even if his name tag now says "prime minister", as this crisis has shown) is the new Stalin, the new Hitler or both. Not that this is a surprise, as both the big 20th century bugbears are inevitably ...

Georgians: We Helped you in Iraq, now Help us!
The Moderate Voice — ... These comparisons, however, are not limited to Neocons. Zbigniew Brzezinski opines in a Huffington Post interview: ...