Subject: [big campaign] How Would McCain Mediate A Russia-Georgia Conflict?
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:47:43 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

How Would McCain Mediate A Russia-Georgia Conflict?
<http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/08/08/how-would-mccain-mediate/>

Russia's invasion of Georgia
<http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/08/georgia.ossetia/index.html>
today raises some questions about how a McCain administration might deal
with a crisis like this. 

McCain's main foreign policy adviser and spokesperson, Randy Scheunemann
<http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/04/30/scheunemann-lobbyist-georg
ia/> , is a former registered lobbyist for the Republic of Georgia
<http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000594> . Back in April,
in an interview <http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1109646.html>
with Radio Free Europe, Scheunemann took a strongly pro-Georgia
anti-Russia line, insisting that the United States should move forward
with missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as
supporting the NATO membership of Ukraine and Georgia, regardless of the
negative consequences that these policies would likely have for
U.S.-Russia relations. 

Given McCain's provocative statements
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/us/politics/26text-mccain.html?_r=1&a
dxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1214535648-R/e6xu11VOwyWM8MJo
qUaQ>  regarding Russia, it's clear that he shares Scheunemann's
hardline views on the subject. As we wrote last month, this has
troubling implications
<http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/07/23/mccains-bad-russia-policy/
>  for the prospect of Russia's essential cooperation in dealing with
the Iranian nuclear program. But is also raises the question of how a
McCain administration - staffed by committed Georgian partisans like
Randy Scheunemann - could conceivably be seen as an honest broker for
dealing with the growing crisis between Russia and Georgia?

http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/08/08/how-would-mccain-mediate/

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group.

To post to this group, send to [email-masked]

To unsubscribe, send email to [email-masked]

E-mail [email-masked] with questions or concerns
 
This is a list of individuals. It is not affiliated with any group or organization.
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---