With Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s attacks on Georgia, we are seeing a return to the old Soviet Union aggression of the 1950s and 1960s; Cold War II is in the making (“Raping Georgia,” Ralph Peters, PostOpinion, Aug. 9).
This dictator should be stopped now.
Jon Pally
Staten Island
If the world wants Russia to stop its invasion of Georgia, all the nations of the world must do is stop buying oil from Russia.
I wonder if the oil in Georgia has anything to do with the Russian invasion.
Edward Drossman
Manhattan
Georgia, an ally and supporter of democracy, is being invaded by Russia, and we are doing nothing.
No nukes? No care. Is this what America is about?
Richard Tobiassen
Woodside
The situation in Georgia and South Ossetia clearly demonstrates that Russia has changed nothing but its name since the 1980 invasion of Afghanistan.
The commercials that the McCain campaign is running show that nothing has changed in the Republican Party, except the candidate, since the 2004 election.
Some things just never change.
Paul H. Taylor
San Francisco
After listening to Barack Obama‘s comments regarding the Russian air force attacks in Georgia, John McCain should compare his opponent to Neville “The Appeaser” Chamberlain instead of Britney “The Teaser” Spears.
T. King
Manhattan
I’ve got Georgia on my mind now that the Soviet Union, I mean Russia, has invaded that small country.
Why don’t we send Jimmy “The Peacemaker” Carter over to negotiate a cease-fire?
Jack Honig
Debary, Fla.
Peters claims that we should back “staunch ally” Georgia in its clash with Russia.
When did Georgia become America’s “staunch ally”? It’s only cozied up to us because it wants our involvement in its squabbles with Russia.
We should not take the bait and choose sides in quarrels 5,000 miles away where we have no legitimate interests.
To rip Russia for opposing Georgia’s joining NATO is sheer hypocrisy. Imagine our outcry if Russia tried to make our southern neighbor, Mexico, a military ally.
An expansion of the NATO caucus suggests that it’s all about encircling Russia and grabbing that region’s oil. So much for the United States’ assurances to Mikhail Gorbachev that there’d be no eastward expansion of NATO in return for the USSR letting its satellites break free.
Diogenes Kekatos
Forest Hills
So Russia is starting trouble again. What did the world expect?
America can’t decide its own energy future. We are run by a bunch of double-talking cowards who intend to take the White House in November, and all we have to do is throw all of Europe under the bus.
Next thing we know, Obama will be making a speech at the Berlin Wall asking Putin to pull out of Georgia.
Right now, the world could be teetering on the brink of a large Russian expansion.
Can anyone picture the likes of Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or any of the other dozens of spineless senators doing a single thing?
The only Democrat senator who would do something is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Anthony C. Rubino
Roxbury
How can we ask former Russian satellite nations to host American anti-ballistic equipment, despite threats of Russian military retaliation, if we let Georgia go it alone?
The United States must act immediately to support Georgian forces.
Russia is run by power-hungry thugs and needs to be stood up to. Diplomacy now is a sign of weakness and will erode our efforts to solidify relationships with other nations in the region.
Serafin Quintanar Jr.
San Francisco