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Give Them Stinger Missiles!

By The Daily Dish
Aug 13 2008, 3:31 AM ET

Max Boot so wants another war. Just two are for pansies. Ross notes:

It's hard for me to believe that Putin's Russia is both an aggressive, expansive power poised to rebuild the Soviet Empire at tank-point and that the Russians would be more or less helpless to retaliate against us in their own neighborhood if we decided to start a proxy war with them in the Caucuses. Sure, maybe Moscow wouldn't have a strong countermove, but do we really want to dare them to make things harder for us where Tehran's quest for nukes is concerned? Or dare them to foul up our ongoing counter-insurgency in Afghanistan? Is the fate of Abkhazia and South Ossetia really worth escalating the already-substantial risks we face in the Middle East and Central Asia?

It's good versus evil. What else do we need to know?



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