Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 25, 2008

Our government?s involvement in the conflict in Georgia offers ironic confirmation of the wisdom of our founding fathers, who urged that we avoid distant foreign quarrels.

Russia?s invasion of Georgia has been widely denounced as aggression. But it was a response to aggression carried out by Georgia against Russian citizens in the tiny province of South Ossetia by a military armed and trained by the U.S. and Israel. Georgia itself had been invited to join NATO, a 26-nation alliance that encircles Russia.

Imagine how the U.S. would react if Russia had built a 26-nation armed alliance in the Western Hemisphere, and then trained a Mexican military that staged an attack on our southwest. In such circumstances, US intervention to protect American citizens would be justified.

Moscow is governed by a nasty regime. But today it its Washington, not Moscow, that engages in global imperial meddling of the sort that could escalate into a world war.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.