Thursday, December 04, 2008 | 12:55 p.m.

Should We Fight for South Ossetia?

by Pat Buchanan

In echo of Warren Harding's "A Return to Normalcy" speech of 1920, George Bush last week declared, "Normalcy is returning back to Iraq."

The term seemed a mite ironic. For, as Bush spoke, Iraqis were dying in the hundreds in the bloodiest fighting in months in Basra, the Shia militias of Moqtada al Sadr were engaging Iraqi and U.S. troops in Sadr City, and mortar shells were dropping into the Green Zone.

One begins to understand why Gen. Petraeus wants a &quo ...

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Posted by: Jeff Hokans
Comment: #1
Tue Apr 1, 2008 8:49 AM

In a recent column at the Chicago Sun-Times Andrew Greeley summed it up pretty simply. Fighter Pilots are not expected to think strategically. Barry Goldwater is spinning in his grave ! Maybe the Neo-Cons will draft all of the Non-Citizen residents it can grab inside of US borders and promise some sort of Green Card if they make it back from the Universal adventures they have planned. JVH

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