Reader Comments
Issue 116 - September 24, 2008

Editor: I could not agree more with your position on Russia as stated in “Russia Realities. Charles Wiley

Editor: To your comments and observations in “Russia Realities,” I say absolutely right and amen..... Brenda Farmer

Editor: Regarding “Russia Realities,” long term, how can you trust a KGB man to live by any agreement? Get a guy like Obama's alter ego, Gorbachev, in there and you've got a chance. That notwithstanding, perhaps George H.W. Bush feared Russian influence on US leadership once installed in NATO, especially among the other former satellite nations. Sitting here at a desk in Scottsdale, I have no way of knowing. I think we'll just have to go toe-to-toe with the Russian Empire for as long as it takes for them to see that Eastern European/Asian hegemony, per se, isn't in their interests half as much as legitimately expanding their world economic power is. As long as ideologically-driven KGB and former communist party members who long for the good 'ol days of gulags and summary executions are in charge, I think that realization will be stalled. I think they are still so steeped in Marxism/Leninism that any real understanding of basic economics is unlikely to surface. They only know the old ways. A dangerous game perhaps, but I think McCain will do well with "toe-to-toe". Jeff Dover, Scottsdale, AZ

Editor: I have a few answers to the points you raised in “Russia Realities.” 1. America did err in Bosnia in supporting Muslims. It destroyed a Christian nation and we committed acts of genocide against Serbia on behalf of Islamic murderers. The lesson there is to never support Jihad goals and objectives but sadly we have repeated the same spiritual blindness in so-called Palestine. 2. Yet, had we stopped Hitler in 1936 and exposed his weakness there millions would have lived. By not doing so with Russian imperialism now we are ensuring the probable deaths of billions later--see the Torah and New Testament if you think otherwise. Interestingly, both times US actions led to death and destruction of Christians. 3. It is a specious argument to indicate that Russia might launch weapons over Georgia. What needs to happen is to push the Russians out of Georgia and the breakaway provinces. If Georgia does not have the right to defend her sovereign state then I guess neither can the U.S. when Mazatlan is proclaimed by illegal aliens in the Southwest. 4. The “ragtag” Islamic murderers have done 100 billion in damage and murdered 3,500 Americans. They now attack us throughout the world and spread the blood cult of Islam while we act as Dhimmis. One nuclear device over Mecca would do a lot for world peace. It was a Muslim that murdered the Jews at LAX, it was a Muslim that shot up the Utah shopping center, it was Muslims that helped arrange the Oklahoma City atrocity, it was Muslims that flew the plane into the Tampa Bank of America building, it was a Muslim that murdered the defenseless women in Seattle and it was a Muslim that murdered the VaTech students. Any question? 5. Confront a bully and earn his respect. Show fear and the bullying continues. That was the school yard lesson I learned in the fifties. 6. Our vacuous response proves weakness to Putin just as Chamberlain's did to Hitler. Result: neither security nor peace but much worst war later. 7. Want to compare the government of Georgia with Russia? What a ridiculous statement from you. Georgia picked on Russia? Shame on them the big bully! 8. I don't give a damn what the world thinks. They hate us. What we need to do is promote American interests not anyone else's. To wit: take the army in Afghanistan and fly them to Georgia. Let the Agfghani Muslims use the remaining Europeans for target practice unless the Euros rediscover their manhood. Take the army in Iraq and strike north to Georgia through Armenia. Use the combination to utterly destroy the third rate Russian forces and drive them to their beloved friends in Chechnya. Close the Black Sea to Russian shipping at the Dardanelles. Introduce troops to support Ukraine and close their ports to Russian shipping. Then demand human rights trial for Putin and the murders he has orchestrated and reparations for the destruction reigned on defenseless Georgia. 9. Did your cowardly neo cons consider any of these? I doubt it. Bill Ford

Editor: Regarding “Russia Realities,” there are 545 people responsible for this and ALL of our problems today, Democrats and Republicans, one hundred senators, 435 congressmen and women, one president and also nine Supreme Court justices. They are the cause of our problems. Not the 300 million of us peons. Walter E. Klinka

Editor: Great article “Electrifying Palin” by David Keene. I could not agree more. She is what we need more of in the Republican Party. I had almost given up on our party because they seemed too eager to go along with the Democrats. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi make me ill just to listen to them and what they want to do to this great nation. I spent my life in the Navy and retired. I lived through Vietnam and Korea and all the liberals at that time. Jane Fonda and her ilk left me so angry. We could not even wear our uniforms when on leave because of so much spite and hatred. I am energized, by our current ticket of McCain and Palin. I want McCain's experience in foreign affairs and the military and Palin for our economy and moral values. The only thing that could make me happier is if John McCain would pick Mitt Romney for a cabinet post. Rudy and Huckabee also. What a great and wonderful country we live in. Let’s stand up for the flag and moral values that this nation was founded on. The founding fathers I believe are smiling right now. Again, thanks for a great article. Best wishes. Tom Kerr

Editor: David Keene’s “Electrifying Palin” was a very well written article on our next Vice President. It’s amazing the amount of response this lady Palin has brought to the news. Keep reporting these worthy articles. Yours in Greenville, SC, Ray Epling

Editor: “Electrifying Palin” has a good head on her shoulders. She uses common sense and looks at the big picture instead of tunnel vision. She would make an EXCELLENT President by herself. I would vote for her. With the two of them, it looks like an unbeatable team! Daniel E. Shea

Editor: To listen to the Democrats and the mainstream media, recent financial troubles are primarily due to those greedy folks who control Wall Street -- and they must surely be Republicans. But a check on political contributions shows that, whatever else the giants of Wall Street may be, they're Democrats, not Republicans. www.OpenSecrets.org has disseminated the data, which were publicly reported to the Federal Election Commission, that prove the point. You will see, for example, Lehman Brothers as the 13th biggest giver of Federal campaign contributions this year, with its money running two-to-one to Democrats over Republicans. It is pretty much the same for second largest giver Goldman Sachs (72% Democrats), third place Citigroup (61%), fourth place JPMorgan (59%), fifth place Morgan Stanley (57%) and the rest. But look it up yourself. Joseph Morris