http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28157
And None Dare Call It Treason
Patrick J. Buchanan
08/22/2008
Who is Randy Scheunemann?
He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States.
But Randy Scheunemann has another iden y, another role.
He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man.
From January 2007 to March 2008, the McCain campaign paid Scheunemann $70,000 -- pocket change compared to the $290,000 his Orion Strategies banked in those same 15 months from the Georgian regime of Mikheil Saakashvili.
What were Mikheil's marching orders to Tbilisi's man in Washington? Get Georgia a NATO war guarantee. Get America committed to fight Russia, if necessary, on behalf of Georgia.
Scheunemann came close to succeeding.
Had he done so, U.S. soldiers and Marines from Idaho and West Virginia would be killing Russians in the Caucasus, and dying to protect Scheunemann's client, who launched this idiotic war the night of Aug. 7. That people like Scheunemann hire themselves out to put American lives on the line for their clients is a classic corruption of American democracy.
U.S. backing for his campaign to retrieve his lost provinces is what Saakashvili paid Scheunemann to produce. But why should Americans fight Russians to force 70,000 South Ossetians back into the custody of a regime they detest? Why not let the South Ossetians decide their own future in free elections?
Not only is the folly of the Bush interventionist policy on display in the Caucasus, so, too, is its manifest incoherence.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says we have sought for 45 years to stay out of a shooting war with Russia and we are not going to get into one now. President Bush assured us there will be no U.S. military response to the Russian move into Georgia.
That is a recognition of, and a bowing to, reality -- namely, that Russia's control of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and occupation of a strip of Georgia cannot be a casus belli for the United States. We may deplore it, but it cannot justify war with Russia.
If that be true, and it transparently is, what are McCain, Barack Obama, Bush, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel doing committing the United States and Germany to bringing Georgia into NATO? For that would commit us to war for a cause we have already conceded, by our paralysis, does not justify a war.
Not only did Scheunemann's two-man lobbying firm receive $730,000 since 2001 to get Georgia a NATO war guarantee, he was paid by Romania and Latvia to do the same. And he succeeded.
Latvia, a tiny Baltic republic annexed by Joseph Stalin in June 1940 during his pact with Adolf Hitler, was set free at the end of the Cold War. Yet hundreds of thousands of Russians had been moved into Latvia by Stalin, and as Riga served as a base of the Baltic Sea fleet, many Russian naval officers retired there.
The children and grandchildren of these Russians are Latvian citizens. They are a cause of constant tension with ethnic Letts and of strife with Moscow, which has assumed the role of protector of Russians left behind in the "near abroad" when the Soviet Union broke apart.
Thanks to the lobbying of Scheunemann and friends, Latvia has been brought into NATO and given a U.S. war guarantee. If Russia intervenes to halt some nasty ethnic violence in Riga, the United States is committed to come in and drive the Russians out.
This is the situation in which the interventionists have placed our country: committed to go to war for countries and causes that do not justify war, against a Russia that is re-emerging as a great power only to find NATO squatting on her doorstep.
Scheunemann's resume as a War Party apparatchik is lengthy. He signed the PNAC (Project for the New American Century) letter to President Clinton urging war on Iraq, four years before 9-11. He signed the PNAC ultimatum to Bush, nine days after 9-11, threatening him with political reprisal if he did not go to war against Iraq. He was executive director of the "Committee for the Liberation of Iraq," a propaganda front for Ahmad Chalabi and his pack of liars who deceived us into war.
Now Scheunemann is the neocon agent in place in McCain's camp.
The neocons got their war with Iraq. They are pushing for war on Iran. And they are now baiting the Russian Bear.
Is this what McCain has on offer? Endless war?
Why would McCain seek foreign policy counsel from the same discredited crowd that has all but destroyed the presidency of George Bush?
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ... a free people ought to be constantly awake," Washington warned in his Farewell Address. Our Founding Father was warning against the Randy Scheunemanns among us, agents hired by foreign powers to deceive Americans into fighting their wars. And none dare call it treason.
Damn this is one of his most scathing articles yet. What do ya'll think? Is he a traitorous bas ?
Last edited by Cant_Be_Faded; 08-26-2008 at 10:12 PM.
Really what else do you expect from McCain? Diplomacy?....of course we'll have more wars what else does McCain bring to the table? He's already said as much and lately McCain has been sounding more open minded toward compulsory military service..for those less educated, that's a draft....Is this what McCain has on offer? Endless war?
McCain has some seriously bad people around him. This guy, Phil Gramm, and now Karl Rove may be coming on board.
I have nothing against McCain, but he's letting the thieves into the palace here.
With guys like this, is it really a stretch when the dimm-o-craps say "Four more years of Bush" ?
maybe we will finally invade darfar and bomb Pakistan.. oh wait that was the lord messiah obama's foreign policy..
Change the subject much?
Lets review...
McCain's chief foreign advisor is a known, admitted lobbyist for former Soviet Republics.
Georgia tried (pathetically) to take South Ossetia less than a month ago.
McCain talks tough about conflict.
Anything to add? Is Obama's foreign advisor a known, admitted lobbyist for -hole African nations or nuclear-power neighbors in the far east?
No?
Then STFU.
In defense of McCain he may just not remember.
ehhh I'll still take it over this "Cater to the weak" America we have up ahead.
Catering to Georgia is catering to the weak.
dupe...Mr. Peabody beat me to it!
Oh how original - an attack on his age. . You do know Biden is old too right ? and since age-discrimination is in play - can I come in with the black jokes against Lord Barry ?
some folks need to learn the definition of "Neo-con"
Funny to point out McCain's relationships while discouting Lord Barry's pastor--- or - William Ayers... you know the terrorist ... I'm just saying.....
Last edited by implacable44; 08-28-2008 at 11:00 AM.
William Ayers is a terrorist pastor?
...according to an email implacable44 just received, yes.
It had an American flag at the end, so you know its true.
Lighten up dude. I'm just saying.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
