Chan's Personal Blog

In the opening act of the Georgian-Russia War, I was pondering what some of the options that the West had on the table to respond against Russia. Some of the options on the table were laughable in my opinion. For example, one of the ideas pitched was to throw Russia out of the G8, which is a special club for the 8 richest countries in the world. If you were to go back in time, say during World War 2, and you told Hitler, if you invade this country, we'll kick you out of our club.... that hardly sounds like a serious threat.

Anyway, Wired Magazine has an article entitled, "Sacked Air Force Secretary: We Shoulda Sent Jets, Troops to Fight Russia."


Given that throughout the entire Cold War, American and Soviet forces were never in a direct fight against each other, it's pretty insane to put American troops in an active war zone against Russia. I think that would qualify as a World War 3 size move. I'm pretty glad they didn't do this.

I really don't see how they could have justified this. For one, the American public is fairly war weary as it is, and America is already bogged down in two wars. I can't see how they could raise support for such actions. Not only that, but Bush's presidency is on its last legs, and he's a lame duck now; he can't really start a new mess and expect the next guy to clean it up.

Anyway, kind of glad that cooler heads have prevailed.