Richardson Yammers About Georgia

Bill Richardson had the following to say about Russia, Georgia and why the war is the Bush Administration's fault;

"My view is that the United States — if we had a stronger relationship with Russia, we could exercise strong diplomacy to stop this effort against Georgia. We should immediately go to the United Nations Security Council, condemn Russia's action, and then get the Security Council to pass a strong resolution getting the Russians to show some restraint, and possibly at the same time generate some U.N. peacekeeping troops. The problem, though, is that we don't have the kind of influence and strength in our relationship with Russia to persuade them. This has been one of the failures of the Bush administration, failing to build a strong relationship, a mutually beneficial relationship with Russia, so we'd have the kind of influence to persuade them to stop some of these very, very dangerous efforts within their territory."

This is the dumbest fucking thing I've heard in a while. From Obama, whose foreign policy experience is less than mine - I slept with a chick from England once; what the heck has he done? - saying "let's go to the UNSC where Russia can be convinced to...condemn itself" is a sigh of naivete and blind adherence to internationalism. coming from someone with Richardson's decades of government experience demonstrates two things. First, it shows that he will jam his nose so far up Obama's ass in the hope of becoming VP that he can eyeball the Messiah for colon cancer. Second, the Federal government turns out morons. Brainless cave shrimp who are blind to the world around them and subsist on bat shit...okay, I'm not certain what that last part means.

Anyway, the second thing is calling Georgia Russia's "territory." Last I looked Georgia, including Ossetia and Abkhazia, is a sovereign state. Not under a prospective Obama/Richardson Administration, I guess. Of course, he may be arguing for setting up formal spheres of influence. If that's the policy he advocates - if he thinks the Bush Administration should have told the Kremlin that Georgia is still there's - then he should say so; I will then give him kudos for having a pair.

Because, we have been talking to Russia for years about Georgia; we just aren't saying what they want to hear...that all the old imperial possessions are still under Moscow's dominance. We've had the audacity (of hope!) to tell the Russians that independent means independent. It does not mean "client state."

At this point, Richardson just sounds like a dimwit who is looking for any excuse to attack the Administration.

(Source: National Review)