Obama Chooses Joe Biden as VP

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

I guess people just love it when we go to war with anyone. It boggles my mind how they don't see that the cost of war is astronomical and while there seems to be a "post-war" boom in the economy, the crap that is dealt with here in all areas is worse along the way. War should be a last resort, not the first option.

Who was talking about war? There are many ways to deal with Russia beyond violence, such as tossing their asses out of the WTO, NATO and the UN, sanctioning them until it hurts and isolating them until they decide to work with the rest of the world. Or you can do what the rest of the world is currently doing, and that is cowering our of fear Russia will cut off the oil.

Russia showed a while ago it has no respect for their own democracy with their staged election, which more of a coronation of Czar Putin, and now they have proven they have no respect for the choice of other people to choose their own leadership. At what point should the world assert itself when faced with a burgeoning autocracy with an eye for expansion via military action and a penchant for political assassination? After a world war is inevitable?

For the record, McCain never once mentioned going to war with Russia. There is a difference between being assertive and war-mongering.[/quote]