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March 14, 2014

Noonan: "Warnings From the Ukraine Crisis"

The most obvious Ukraine point has to do with American foreign policy in the sixth year of the Obama era.
Not being George W. Bush is not a foreign policy. Not invading countries is not a foreign policy. Wishing to demonstrate your sophistication by announcing you are unencumbered by the false historical narratives of the past is not a foreign policy. Assuming the world will be nice if we're not militarist is not a foreign policy. What is our foreign policy? Disliking global warming? - - WSJ.com

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 14, 2014 1:34 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Second verse same as the first - remember Syria? Libya?

"Obama once again has no Plan A: Bombing is not a strategy"

Posted by: Donald Sensing at March 14, 2014 3:53 PM

Please please please Gerard, no links to this person or the WaPo. Just don't. Thanks.

Posted by: dr kill at March 14, 2014 6:01 PM

Agree with dr kill.
Noonan shilled for Obama in 2008. She was so impressed with his "sophistication."
It's a little late to realize what a terrible mistake this country made by electing him.
I can't stand to read anything by her.

Posted by: Linda P at March 14, 2014 6:30 PM

I think Gerard just wants to give people another opportunity to dump on Peggy after she takes six years to figure out the obvious. I fear there's lots of registered Republicans like her.

Posted by: james wilson at March 14, 2014 6:35 PM

I too have little to no regard for Noonan,
who's sudden epiphany regarding Obama smacks of
nothing more than careerist opportunism.

Here once again, though critical, she gives this
administration too much credit. Even disliking
Global Warming as a foreign policy
would be more than they could muster.

Posted by: Tim P at March 14, 2014 6:38 PM

It seems Noonan has come back quite nicely.

To answer, our foreign policy is splendid isolationism to protect the world from the unique evil that is America - and it would work if not for that meddling reality!

Posted by: Mikey NTH at March 14, 2014 7:05 PM

There is nothing in Ukraine worth one drop of American blood.

Posted by: B Lewis at March 14, 2014 8:19 PM

B. Lewis has it.

On a scale of 1-10 rate US vs Russian interest in Ukraine

same scale, risk to us, vs risk to Russia?

Posted by: iggy at March 14, 2014 8:35 PM

"...unencumbered by the false historical narratives..."

and unencumbered by consistent historical refutation to the "new truth"?

Posted by: CaptDMO at March 15, 2014 7:01 AM

"There is nothing in Ukraine worth one drop of American blood."
We learn nothing from history Neville Chamberlain!
There is nothing in Georgia worth on drop of American blood. Nothing in Lithuania and Latvia either. Not Poland, or Austria, nor East Germany and Czechoslovkia, certainly nothing in Serbia and Macedonia, ditto for Maldovia and Romania, I never left anythng in Hungary or slovakia either, Bulgaria and Greece can go as well. Hell! Just think how easy it will be to just refer to all of Eastern Europe as the USSR again.

Posted by: GoneWithTheWind at March 15, 2014 7:27 AM

"There is nothing in Ukraine worth one drop of American blood."
We learn nothing from history Neville Chamberlain!
There is nothing in Georgia worth on drop of American blood. Nothing in Lithuania and Latvia either. Not Poland, or Austria, nor East Germany and Czechoslovkia, certainly nothing in Serbia and Macedonia, ditto for Maldovia and Romania, I never left anythng in Hungary or slovakia either, Bulgaria and Greece can go as well. Hell! Just think how easy it will be to just refer to all of Eastern Europe as the USSR again.

Posted by: GoneWithTheWind at March 15, 2014 7:30 AM

GWTW: look at it this way: it'll make the mapping easier.

So, OK, we forgive the billions in war loans and ask: what country did you say? One of the ones whose ass we kicked or one of the ones whose ass we saved? Any and all of them have been so eternally grateful since the last time we straightened out Europe we should step in and do it again. This time I say we should bring home the gold. Oh, and some nubile servant wenches.

Posted by: chasmatic at March 15, 2014 8:46 AM

I don't care who runs Estonia or Greece, either. If you do, fine. Send your son to die for Estonia and Greece.

Nothing bad will happen to America if the Russians invade Ukraine. Therefore, I don't care if they do. I wish both the Russians and Ukrainians well, but their conflict is theirs to sort out, not mine.

Here's what I have learned from history: first, that the wrong side won World War I; second, that the real winner of World War II was communism, both in the Soviet Union and here; and third, the United States should never have been involved in either European war.

There is nothing in Ukraine worth one drop of American blood.

Posted by: B Lewis at March 15, 2014 9:16 AM


"Neville Chamberlain" has become the armchair geopolitican's equivalent of 'racist.' Invocation of the term is supposed to crush all debate.

Hey, Let's Roll!

Posted by: Lorne at March 15, 2014 9:26 AM

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