He was lookin' for a country to steal. Vlad "The Impaler" Putin has launched an all out attack on Georgia. Not the one from the song, the other one. Russian aircraft are bombing civilian apartment buildings. There is a notable lack of interest in any of that from the left blogosphere, as a quick perusal of Memeorandum indicates. If Israel isn't involved, the left is pretty much silent.
The Daily Mail is reporting that Russia is attempting to bomb the pipeline that runs through Georgia, delivering oil to the West.
The war in Georgia escalated dangerously last night after Russian jets reportedly bombed a vital pipeline that supplies oil to the West.
After a day of heightening international tensions, Georgian leaders claimed that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which transports oil from the Caspian Sea to Turkey, had been attacked. But it is thought the bombs missed their target.
Their claims came after Russian jets struck deep into the territory of its tiny neighbour, killing civilians and ‘completely devastating’ the strategic Black Sea port of Poti, a staging post for oil and other energy supplies.
Reports last night also said that Russia had bombed the international airport in Tbilisi.
The Russian knife is pointed at Georgia's throat, but the artery belongs to the West. Yet the Democrats in charge of the American Congress refuse to allow a vote on allowing oil drilling off the American coasts.
Think about that.
UPDATE: No sooner hit the publish key and this came up over at Memeorandum from HuffnPuffPo. Now we know why the left has been largely quiet. They were trying to think up a way to blame it on Republicans. Sleazy, even for HuffnPuff.
It really was convenient, it showed Obama is not ready for real world prime time in one day. And that is what they are really saying, over the HuffPost, isn’t it.So the story is Bush knew, of course he did, and encouraged Putin to attack, of course he didn’t. You have to be a blithering lefty truther to go there.
I saw an article by Dick Morris this morning comparing this incident with Hitler’s invasion of the Sudetenland in 1938. It has some very real parallels – enough to make it eerily like history repeating itself. The question then becomes will the West again act as Chamberlain did at the time. Only time will tell.
As for the piece at HuffnPuff, if Republicans were anywhere near as Machiavellian as the left wing nut roots give them credit for there would be no Democratic Majority in Congress and the elections would be a mere formality for the Republican candidate. Unfortunately, the fact that the Obamessiah is till ahead in most polls makes their conspiracy theories look pretty silly.