> He snidely commented “I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave.”
The usual U.S. projection. As former Sri Lankan diplomat. the late Ananda W.P. Guruge put it:
"If the Americans come, they will just draw an arbitrary line through a temporary problem and make it permanent."
And J. Michael Springmann, a Washington-based political analyst and former State Dept. has stated:
"... once they move into a country, they're very very reluctant to leave. We have American soldiers still in Germany and Japan, 75 years after the end of WW2, ostensible to keep the peace and to fight terrorists and oppose the Russians and Chinese and who know else."
> He snidely commented “I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave.”
The usual U.S. projection. As former Sri Lankan diplomat. the late Ananda W.P. Guruge put it:
"If the Americans come, they will just draw an arbitrary line through a temporary problem and make it permanent."
And J. Michael Springmann, a Washington-based political analyst and former State Dept. has stated:
"... once they move into a country, they're very very reluctant to leave. We have American soldiers still in Germany and Japan, 75 years after the end of WW2, ostensible to keep the peace and to fight terrorists and oppose the Russians and Chinese and who know else."