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		<title>By: palooza</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, you&#039;ve managed to write 1000 words and offer no new takes on the situation. Front Page, I expect better. Edward Snowden&#039;s a traitor? China and Russia are worse than the US in the treatment of their citizens? The cold war&#039;s re-starting? I had no idea.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, you&#8217;ve managed to write 1000 words and offer no new takes on the situation. Front Page, I expect better. Edward Snowden&#8217;s a traitor? China and Russia are worse than the US in the treatment of their citizens? The cold war&#8217;s re-starting? I had no idea.</p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;re entire post is so ignorant, so absurd,  so dishonest, so reflexively partisan as to be laughable.  

I&#039;m not &quot;excusing&quot; anyone.  I was indicting every president since FDR for un-American aspects of his foreign policy, including both Democrats and Republicans, which blew up in our faces.  Did you even read?  

Ike was duped by the British into believing Mossadegh had communist leanings, even though M was outspokenly anti-Soviet. In fact, right up until the US coup, he was pleading for US financial assistance.  He was ready and willing to become a close ally.  His sin?  Nationalizing Iranian oil in the same way most every nation on earth had (nothing scary or &quot;commie&quot;).  This ended British control of Iran&#039;s oilfields via the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (the parent of today&#039;s BP).  So they got the CIA to oust Mossadegh and put in the Shah - a British-US puppet who created his own hell hole while ensuring Western control of Iran&#039;s oilfields. Iran could have been a REAL ally!    

The lid on that boiling pot simply came off on Carter&#039;s watch, which it was bound to do.  Tyrants can only rule for so long.  Carter didn&#039;t &quot;turn&quot; it into anything.  The Iranians - you know the actual citizens of Iran whose lives we&#039;re discussing? - reacted to our installing and propping up a wretched dictator which tortured and imprisoned them for Western gain. THAT is why they hate us so much, Numbnuts, not just &quot;cuz thur Moslums hoo hate us fer our freedumm!&quot;  Wake the f**k up!

The ARVN were about as useful on the battlefield without GIs as today&#039;s Afghan National Army is.  And the Saigon government was corrupt and loathed by the South Vietnamese.  The South Vietnamese didn&#039;t believe in fighting for the government we foisted upon them.  One thing that both sides could agree on is that they wanted to unite and be independent of Western influence - it was the form of government they disagreed on, obviously.  

It was the Republicans - NOT Democrats - who began major cuts in GIs and funding to the South, via Nixon&#039;s &quot;Vietnamization&quot; program (and good for him).  You don&#039;t get to have an opinion about that.  

Here&#039;s the tragedy:  if Americans - of both parties - had been true to American values, we not only would not have had to fight that war, but Vietnam would have become a stalwart bastion of pro-Western sentiment in SEA. We could have completely co-opted the independence movement from the communists. 
 
Ho directly pleaded with every US president from Wilson through FDR for American support in overthrowing French colonial control, and was rebuffed by all of them (we didn&#039;t want to offend our buddies, the Frogs).  Ho helped the OSS (former CIA) in fighting the Japanese during WWII, was moved by his time living and working among free Americans, and famously quoted Jefferson in many of his declarations. He figured the US - of all countries - was an ideal partner in helping Vietnam gain independence. 

His goal was an independent Vietnam, not a communist one.  Ultimately, he simply went commie because he had no where else to go. We pushed him into their arms.  

&quot;Yall are yet to explain how or why swapping right wing America friendly dictators that kill or imprison thousands of their subjects, with left wing or islamist dictators that kill scores of thousands or even millions...&quot;

That&#039;s the problem:  you&#039;re just like idiot lefties who believe that any wrong in the world is America&#039;s fault, as if we&#039;re omnipotent.  The US didn&#039;t install leftists anywhere.  Things happen.  Citizens of nations make choices and react when we f**k with their governments, sovereignity and very lives.  Imagine if Canada overthrew Reagan and imprisioned him, and installed a puppet government which tortured and imprisoned any dissenters, and basically did the bidding of Canada.  We might be a bit &quot;anti-Canadian&quot; doncha think?
   
And the rest of your drivel about Iraq going gangbusters until that ol&#039; commie lefty Obumma wrecked it is so dishonest as to be grotesque.  Shame on you.  You&#039;re an embarrassment to any thinking honest person.  You repulsive retards have taken over my Republican Party and mangled conservatism.  Go make Sarah Palin the leader of your own party, something like, &quot;Proudly Ignorant Bubbas fer &#039;Murca!&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re entire post is so ignorant, so absurd,  so dishonest, so reflexively partisan as to be laughable.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not &#8220;excusing&#8221; anyone.  I was indicting every president since FDR for un-American aspects of his foreign policy, including both Democrats and Republicans, which blew up in our faces.  Did you even read?  </p>
<p>Ike was duped by the British into believing Mossadegh had communist leanings, even though M was outspokenly anti-Soviet. In fact, right up until the US coup, he was pleading for US financial assistance.  He was ready and willing to become a close ally.  His sin?  Nationalizing Iranian oil in the same way most every nation on earth had (nothing scary or &#8220;commie&#8221;).  This ended British control of Iran&#8217;s oilfields via the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (the parent of today&#8217;s BP).  So they got the CIA to oust Mossadegh and put in the Shah &#8211; a British-US puppet who created his own hell hole while ensuring Western control of Iran&#8217;s oilfields. Iran could have been a REAL ally!    </p>
<p>The lid on that boiling pot simply came off on Carter&#8217;s watch, which it was bound to do.  Tyrants can only rule for so long.  Carter didn&#8217;t &#8220;turn&#8221; it into anything.  The Iranians &#8211; you know the actual citizens of Iran whose lives we&#8217;re discussing? &#8211; reacted to our installing and propping up a wretched dictator which tortured and imprisoned them for Western gain. THAT is why they hate us so much, Numbnuts, not just &#8220;cuz thur Moslums hoo hate us fer our freedumm!&#8221;  Wake the f**k up!</p>
<p>The ARVN were about as useful on the battlefield without GIs as today&#8217;s Afghan National Army is.  And the Saigon government was corrupt and loathed by the South Vietnamese.  The South Vietnamese didn&#8217;t believe in fighting for the government we foisted upon them.  One thing that both sides could agree on is that they wanted to unite and be independent of Western influence &#8211; it was the form of government they disagreed on, obviously.  </p>
<p>It was the Republicans &#8211; NOT Democrats &#8211; who began major cuts in GIs and funding to the South, via Nixon&#8217;s &#8220;Vietnamization&#8221; program (and good for him).  You don&#8217;t get to have an opinion about that.  </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the tragedy:  if Americans &#8211; of both parties &#8211; had been true to American values, we not only would not have had to fight that war, but Vietnam would have become a stalwart bastion of pro-Western sentiment in SEA. We could have completely co-opted the independence movement from the communists. </p>
<p>Ho directly pleaded with every US president from Wilson through FDR for American support in overthrowing French colonial control, and was rebuffed by all of them (we didn&#8217;t want to offend our buddies, the Frogs).  Ho helped the OSS (former CIA) in fighting the Japanese during WWII, was moved by his time living and working among free Americans, and famously quoted Jefferson in many of his declarations. He figured the US &#8211; of all countries &#8211; was an ideal partner in helping Vietnam gain independence. </p>
<p>His goal was an independent Vietnam, not a communist one.  Ultimately, he simply went commie because he had no where else to go. We pushed him into their arms.  </p>
<p>&#8220;Yall are yet to explain how or why swapping right wing America friendly dictators that kill or imprison thousands of their subjects, with left wing or islamist dictators that kill scores of thousands or even millions&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the problem:  you&#8217;re just like idiot lefties who believe that any wrong in the world is America&#8217;s fault, as if we&#8217;re omnipotent.  The US didn&#8217;t install leftists anywhere.  Things happen.  Citizens of nations make choices and react when we f**k with their governments, sovereignity and very lives.  Imagine if Canada overthrew Reagan and imprisioned him, and installed a puppet government which tortured and imprisoned any dissenters, and basically did the bidding of Canada.  We might be a bit &#8220;anti-Canadian&#8221; doncha think?</p>
<p>And the rest of your drivel about Iraq going gangbusters until that ol&#8217; commie lefty Obumma wrecked it is so dishonest as to be grotesque.  Shame on you.  You&#8217;re an embarrassment to any thinking honest person.  You repulsive retards have taken over my Republican Party and mangled conservatism.  Go make Sarah Palin the leader of your own party, something like, &#8220;Proudly Ignorant Bubbas fer &#8216;Murca!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: CowboyUp</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CowboyUp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 21:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excuses, excuses, the same as with the economy.   Yall fall for every commie posing as a &quot;peaceful agrarian reformer&quot; that came down the pike, like you’d never seen or been fooled by one before.    We saved Iran from becoming another communist h*ll hole (funny you would leave that part out), and carter had to ‘fix’ that by turning it into an islamist h*ll hole.   Way to go democrats.  

The war in Vietnam was already won, all we had to do was keep supplying the ARVN until the country developed to the point that it could stand the NVA off on its’ own, like South Korea, and we might be buying Vietnamese cars by now.  But the democrat party cut all aid at the same time the soviets doubled their aid to the NVA, and the NVA invaded and conquered South Vietnam.    The resulting bloodbath, poverty, oppression, and starvation in SE Asia after the US abandoned it, is what democrats wax nostalgic over being their greatest cold war victory.

Yall are yet to explain how or why swapping right wing America friendly dictators that kill or imprison thousands of their subjects, with left wing or islamist dictators that kill scores of thousands or even millions of their subjects and try to subvert their neighbors, is any kind of improvement or progress.  

You are also apparently still operating under the delusion that the soviet union didn’t collapse and their own records, including their politburo minutes, weren’t opened and proved they were trying to take over the world by subversion and force with the specific aim of destroying the United States.  Yall pretend it didn’t happen, that yall weren’t dangerously wrong, and democrats keep doing the same stupid things for the same discredited reasons.   If the dp were merely ignorant or stupid, they would err on the side of the USA every now and then.   But they don’t.

Oh, and Iraq was doing fine when Bush retired, so if it’s messed it up now, you can thank obama and his ‘smart diplomacy’ for it.   Bush left Obama with American forces on Iran’s northern and western borders, the Iraqi government wanting us to stay, no saddam to tie down our forces containing him, and a world that knew when a US president said severe consequences, he meant it.  Apparently you and the democrat party know nothing of strategy or diplomacy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excuses, excuses, the same as with the economy.   Yall fall for every commie posing as a &#8220;peaceful agrarian reformer&#8221; that came down the pike, like you’d never seen or been fooled by one before.    We saved Iran from becoming another communist h*ll hole (funny you would leave that part out), and carter had to ‘fix’ that by turning it into an islamist h*ll hole.   Way to go democrats.  </p>
<p>The war in Vietnam was already won, all we had to do was keep supplying the ARVN until the country developed to the point that it could stand the NVA off on its’ own, like South Korea, and we might be buying Vietnamese cars by now.  But the democrat party cut all aid at the same time the soviets doubled their aid to the NVA, and the NVA invaded and conquered South Vietnam.    The resulting bloodbath, poverty, oppression, and starvation in SE Asia after the US abandoned it, is what democrats wax nostalgic over being their greatest cold war victory.</p>
<p>Yall are yet to explain how or why swapping right wing America friendly dictators that kill or imprison thousands of their subjects, with left wing or islamist dictators that kill scores of thousands or even millions of their subjects and try to subvert their neighbors, is any kind of improvement or progress.  </p>
<p>You are also apparently still operating under the delusion that the soviet union didn’t collapse and their own records, including their politburo minutes, weren’t opened and proved they were trying to take over the world by subversion and force with the specific aim of destroying the United States.  Yall pretend it didn’t happen, that yall weren’t dangerously wrong, and democrats keep doing the same stupid things for the same discredited reasons.   If the dp were merely ignorant or stupid, they would err on the side of the USA every now and then.   But they don’t.</p>
<p>Oh, and Iraq was doing fine when Bush retired, so if it’s messed it up now, you can thank obama and his ‘smart diplomacy’ for it.   Bush left Obama with American forces on Iran’s northern and western borders, the Iraqi government wanting us to stay, no saddam to tie down our forces containing him, and a world that knew when a US president said severe consequences, he meant it.  Apparently you and the democrat party know nothing of strategy or diplomacy.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We sure are living in the most interesting of times aren&#039;t we Ziggy?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We sure are living in the most interesting of times aren&#8217;t we Ziggy?</p>
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		<title>By: DontMessWithAmerica</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/putins-eastern-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-5254981</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DontMessWithAmerica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Methinks you zog while you should be zigging but it&#039;s still a partially free country and we&#039;re all entitled to our own ideas.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Methinks you zog while you should be zigging but it&#8217;s still a partially free country and we&#8217;re all entitled to our own ideas.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/putins-eastern-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-5254850</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 04:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Snowden had any integrity he would have gone to Fox News and then Congress. He didn&#039;t. He went to one American enemy after another. He is a traitor. He isn&#039;t a hero just because he revealed valuable information. That doesn&#039;t even make him a decent human being.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Snowden had any integrity he would have gone to Fox News and then Congress. He didn&#8217;t. He went to one American enemy after another. He is a traitor. He isn&#8217;t a hero just because he revealed valuable information. That doesn&#8217;t even make him a decent human being.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 04:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Snowden blew the Guardian - an enemy of the West. In fact, every Western &quot;news&quot; agency he tried to blow was anti-American and anti-Western.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Snowden blew the Guardian &#8211; an enemy of the West. In fact, every Western &#8220;news&#8221; agency he tried to blow was anti-American and anti-Western.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putin has actually given lectures to the West on how to fight Marxism and practice capitalism - as I&#039;m sure you know. He may prefer crony capitalism but yes, he is a nationsalist. Obama is anything but. He is the same as Lenin and Mao but without any of their skills. He actually believes America could be successful (for its elites) if he succeeds in transforming it into an Obamanation. Some form of country would survive but it would be dystopian and it sure as he11 wouldn&#039;t be America.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Putin has actually given lectures to the West on how to fight Marxism and practice capitalism &#8211; as I&#8217;m sure you know. He may prefer crony capitalism but yes, he is a nationsalist. Obama is anything but. He is the same as Lenin and Mao but without any of their skills. He actually believes America could be successful (for its elites) if he succeeds in transforming it into an Obamanation. Some form of country would survive but it would be dystopian and it sure as he11 wouldn&#8217;t be America.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stinks, neither Clinton or Bush used the data collected by spying on us to persecute their political &quot;enemies.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stinks, neither Clinton or Bush used the data collected by spying on us to persecute their political &#8220;enemies.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That doctor earned it and can do what he wills with it, if your on welfare, you make no demands period.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That doctor earned it and can do what he wills with it, if your on welfare, you make no demands period.</p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No American president destabilized or overthrew either the Shah or Mubarak.  However, the hubris I&#039;m describing had the US overthrow Mossadegh in Tehran, a popular, democratically elected ruler we replaced with our puppet the Shah, a brutal tyrant for 40 years.  And we propped up Mubarak, another tyrant, in Egypt for about 30 years (under less outrageous circumstances).  

And the US, under presidents of both parties since WWII, has engaged in some appalling acts of secret war, assassination, coups, fixing of elections, creation and support of death squads, and meddling all in the name of American goodness.  

Wouldn&#039;t you know:  the people of those countries hate us for that.  It&#039;s as if they didn&#039;t get the message the the USA is Number 1, is Exceptional, and has a right to do what other countries don&#039;t.  

And that hubris came back to bite us in &#039;79 and 2012, as well as other times.  

Or consider the Republicans&#039; project to invade, occupy and transform Iraq into a peaceful, pro-Western beacon of freedom for the rest of the Arab world, and instead it splintered into a civil war, a basketcase where Al Queda now roams free, the Shia majority government is in league with Iran, we objectively failed to obtain our goals, and Iran has never had it better.  It&#039;s as if the United States shot itself in the head with a gun it invented which cost us over $1 trillion dollars, over 4,500 American lives, and tens of thousands of maimed Americans.  

There used to be a time when conservatives were actually dispositionally conservative and would have been appalled at the fantasy that we could re-create alien societies with the force of arms, when the government can&#039;t even manage the Post Office correctly.  And would have known we had no right to even try.  

The good news is that impulse is coming back.  You and your friends on this site are on the fringes of the right wing right now.  There is a complete reassessment of foreign policy happening and it&#039;s a healthy development.  See the debate between Paul and Christie, as an example.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No American president destabilized or overthrew either the Shah or Mubarak.  However, the hubris I&#8217;m describing had the US overthrow Mossadegh in Tehran, a popular, democratically elected ruler we replaced with our puppet the Shah, a brutal tyrant for 40 years.  And we propped up Mubarak, another tyrant, in Egypt for about 30 years (under less outrageous circumstances).  </p>
<p>And the US, under presidents of both parties since WWII, has engaged in some appalling acts of secret war, assassination, coups, fixing of elections, creation and support of death squads, and meddling all in the name of American goodness.  </p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you know:  the people of those countries hate us for that.  It&#8217;s as if they didn&#8217;t get the message the the USA is Number 1, is Exceptional, and has a right to do what other countries don&#8217;t.  </p>
<p>And that hubris came back to bite us in &#8217;79 and 2012, as well as other times.  </p>
<p>Or consider the Republicans&#8217; project to invade, occupy and transform Iraq into a peaceful, pro-Western beacon of freedom for the rest of the Arab world, and instead it splintered into a civil war, a basketcase where Al Queda now roams free, the Shia majority government is in league with Iran, we objectively failed to obtain our goals, and Iran has never had it better.  It&#8217;s as if the United States shot itself in the head with a gun it invented which cost us over $1 trillion dollars, over 4,500 American lives, and tens of thousands of maimed Americans.  </p>
<p>There used to be a time when conservatives were actually dispositionally conservative and would have been appalled at the fantasy that we could re-create alien societies with the force of arms, when the government can&#8217;t even manage the Post Office correctly.  And would have known we had no right to even try.  </p>
<p>The good news is that impulse is coming back.  You and your friends on this site are on the fringes of the right wing right now.  There is a complete reassessment of foreign policy happening and it&#8217;s a healthy development.  See the debate between Paul and Christie, as an example.</p>
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		<title>By: CowboyUp</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CowboyUp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor helpless democrat party politicians, it’s not their fault, there was just nothing they could do.  They supposedly represent the most prosperous nation in history, with the biggest economy and one of the biggest and best
militaries, yet they have no options, and no leverage.  They can destabilize and depose titular allies like the Shah and Mubarek, to have them replaced by the US hostile
ayatollas and muslim brotherhood, but there’s just nothing that can be done against our self-proclaimed enemies.    It sounds like a compelling reason to keep the democrat party out of foreign policy and the WH.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poor helpless democrat party politicians, it’s not their fault, there was just nothing they could do.  They supposedly represent the most prosperous nation in history, with the biggest economy and one of the biggest and best<br />
militaries, yet they have no options, and no leverage.  They can destabilize and depose titular allies like the Shah and Mubarek, to have them replaced by the US hostile<br />
ayatollas and muslim brotherhood, but there’s just nothing that can be done against our self-proclaimed enemies.    It sounds like a compelling reason to keep the democrat party out of foreign policy and the WH.</p>
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		<title>By: Bulder</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bulder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 01:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonsense !  We went to Russia 2 years ago . Putin gets criticized and mocked on TV all the time . A lot more then Obama in America .  You are just Brainwashed by the Zionist Media here . Typical .]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nonsense !  We went to Russia 2 years ago . Putin gets criticized and mocked on TV all the time . A lot more then Obama in America .  You are just Brainwashed by the Zionist Media here . Typical .</p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#039;ve stated before, we don&#039;t need to commit fiscal suicide deploying massive defense systems which are not strategically necessary, just to show that we&#039;re tough.  
There&#039;s something between waving the white flag while holding hands and singing kumbaya, and threatening every single country under the sun which we don&#039;t like, marine.  Figure it out.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I&#8217;ve stated before, we don&#8217;t need to commit fiscal suicide deploying massive defense systems which are not strategically necessary, just to show that we&#8217;re tough.<br />
There&#8217;s something between waving the white flag while holding hands and singing kumbaya, and threatening every single country under the sun which we don&#8217;t like, marine.  Figure it out.</p>
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		<title>By: EarlyBird</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/putins-eastern-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-5254157</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EarlyBird]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So &quot;Edward,&quot; formerly two other names on this board, as I&#039;ve stated before, I&#039;m not running an adult literacy clinic.  Now this is what I previously stated about SDI:  

&quot;The entire point of SDI was to keep SOVIET missiles out of Eastern Europe and the US.&quot;

It was both.  Primarily the US during the Cold War to protect against Soviet missiles, and our Eastern Europen allies after the Cold War, from (formerly Soviet) Russian missiles, i.e., exactly what&#039;s being discussed here.    

Try to follow along, okay?  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So &#8220;Edward,&#8221; formerly two other names on this board, as I&#8217;ve stated before, I&#8217;m not running an adult literacy clinic.  Now this is what I previously stated about SDI:  </p>
<p>&#8220;The entire point of SDI was to keep SOVIET missiles out of Eastern Europe and the US.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was both.  Primarily the US during the Cold War to protect against Soviet missiles, and our Eastern Europen allies after the Cold War, from (formerly Soviet) Russian missiles, i.e., exactly what&#8217;s being discussed here.    </p>
<p>Try to follow along, okay?  </p>
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		<title>By: Melvin Polatnick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melvin Polatnick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The society
doctor who hides a million in cash annually and sends it to an offshore account
lowers my welfare check. The poor are being robbed by all the loopholes in the
tax code.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The society<br />
doctor who hides a million in cash annually and sends it to an offshore account<br />
lowers my welfare check. The poor are being robbed by all the loopholes in the<br />
tax code.</p>
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		<title>By: marek</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/putins-eastern-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-5254106</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[marek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It should have been more intelligent to warrant mr Snowden a free passage to a south america country of his choice than to launch an hallali against him. See the consequences of this foolish attitude.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It should have been more intelligent to warrant mr Snowden a free passage to a south america country of his choice than to launch an hallali against him. See the consequences of this foolish attitude.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/putins-eastern-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-5254038</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It still isn&#039;t your money, it is the folks that put it there to protect their assets  from commi&#039;s like you who would confiscate it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It still isn&#8217;t your money, it is the folks that put it there to protect their assets  from commi&#8217;s like you who would confiscate it.</p>
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		<title>By: Drakken</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/putins-eastern-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-5254034</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Drakken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have stated before, that Russia as a whole isn&#039;t our enemy any longer, but weak responses instead of a backbone only invites folks to slap the dogsh** out of you. Putin won&#039;t launch a missile, but our absence of power projection in the middle east and other places only invites others to take our place because folks always back the strong horse there honey, always have and always will.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have stated before, that Russia as a whole isn&#8217;t our enemy any longer, but weak responses instead of a backbone only invites folks to slap the dogsh** out of you. Putin won&#8217;t launch a missile, but our absence of power projection in the middle east and other places only invites others to take our place because folks always back the strong horse there honey, always have and always will.</p>
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		<title>By: ReyR</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/putins-eastern-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-5253871</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ReyR]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 08:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#039;t have to believe anything but your own eyes. 20 years is a long time. Things have changed. Just keep your eyes open.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You don&#8217;t have to believe anything but your own eyes. 20 years is a long time. Things have changed. Just keep your eyes open.</p>
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