Last week,
Sen. Marco Rubio, rising star of the Republican right, on everyone's
short list for VP, called for a unanimous vote, without debate,
on a resolution directing President Obama to accept Georgia's plan
for membership in NATO at the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago. |
Rubio was pushing
to have the U.S. Senate pressure Obama into fast-tracking Georgia
into NATO, making Tbilisi an ally the United States would be obligated
by treaty to go to war to defend. |
And for whose
benefit is Rubio pushing to have his own countrymen committed to
fight for a Georgia that, three years ago, started an unprovoked
war with Russia? Who cooked up this scheme to involve Americans
in future wars in the Caucasus that are none of our business? |
The answer
is unknown. What is known is the name of the senator who blocked
it – Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, who alone stepped in and objected,
defeating Rubio's effort to get a unanimous vote. |
The resolution
was pulled. But these people will be back. They are indefatigable
when it comes to finding ways to commit the blood of U.S. soldiers
to their client regimes and ideological bedfellows. |
With Newt appointing
as America's first diplomat an uber-hawk who makes Dick Cheney look
like Gandhi, and Mitt Romney's foreign policy team crawling with
neocons primed for war with Iran, a vote for the GOP in 2012 looks
more and more like a vote for war. Read more at lewrockwell.com |
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