You know, I not surprised that someone whom, as best as I can tell, seems to be sort of a Peckerwood George Will, is furiously lisping about "the rules" in seeking to "catch" a non-existent Barack Obama "gaffe" during his speech Tuesday night.
Not that I expect this sort of stuff to really gain any traction, but typical of the "tell me what it is and I'll throw rocks at it, Sheriff" crowd are types like this Jack Kelly clown, who waxes triumphantly re: Obama's very stirring--and, hey idiot, RHETORICAL allusion to former presidents who at times chose diplomacy over destruction. Duh.
And while yeah, the Soviet Union was nominally allied with the United States during World War II, it was quite apparent to all concerned that this arrangement was the ultimate marriage of convenience...and it's also apparent to anyone who's read a history book that the United States opposed the Soviets to the point of actually undertaking an unsuccessful military intervention in the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution, leading to a break in relations for some dozen years and rather chilly diplomatic ties thereafter (see War, Cold).
As for the Yalta and Potsdam agreements that wingers of an earlier era are so quick to condemn, well, that's again called DIPLOMACY. No, it wasn't pleasant to cede political control over territory the Soviet Union OCCUPIED, but the occupation generated its own imperatives...Kelly, from the highly advantageous position of hindsight, seems to think an immediate World War III, i.e., several million MORE casualties, was the preferred order of business.
Just as he implies that nukulur combat, toe-to-toe with the Ruskies would have been JFK's preferred option.
You know, Kelly seems to have that chickenhawk smell...I checked around, but could find no biographical info on him...but he certainly looks old enough to have ducked and dodged when it was his turn, even though, from the comfort of his easy chair, there's not a shooting war he doesn't endorse.
Asshole.
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