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August 13, 2008
Scheer Lunacy
Posted by Dave Blount at August 13, 2008 12:01 PM
Robert Scheer has revealed an amazing theory about Russia's brutal invasion of Georgia: it's a "neocon election ploy":
Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?
Before you dismiss that possibility, consider the role of one Randy Scheunemann, for four years a paid lobbyist for the Georgian government, ending his official lobbying connection only in March, months after he became Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's senior foreign policy adviser.
Previously, Scheunemann was best known as one of the neoconservatives who engineered the war in Iraq when he was a director of the Project for a New American Century. It was Scheunemann who, after working on the McCain 2000 presidential campaign, headed the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which championed the U.S. Iraq invasion.
There are telltale signs that he played a similar role in the recent Georgia flare-up. How else to explain the folly of his close friend and former employer, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, in ordering an invasion of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, which clearly was expected to produce a Russian counter-reaction. It is inconceivable that Saakashvili would have triggered this dangerous escalation without some assurance from influential Americans he trusted, like Scheunemann, that the United States would have his back. Scheunemann long guided McCain in these matters, even before he was officially running foreign policy for McCain's presidential campaign.
This lunacy was published by a major MSM organ, the San Francisco Chronicle.
Notice that the moonbat instinctively takes Russia's side against its victim. Cold War habits die hard. He even praises Vladimir Putin, the former KGB thug who has effectively become a dictator, as Russia's "enormously popular elected leader."
Even Scheer is right about one thing: a reminder that it's a dangerous world out there isn't going to help Obama's chances to inflict Change.
Robert Scheer: Still pulling for the USSR.
On a tip from V the K.
