Choosing Sides on South Ossetia
Lee on Aug 09 2008 at 7:13 am | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
After an ambiguous initial reaction, the State Department appears to have realized that despite whatever Russia contends, it is physically impossible for Georgia to invade its own country:
“We call on Russia to cease attacks on Georgia by aircraft and missiles, respect Georgia’s territorial integrity, and withdraw its ground combat forces from Georgian soil,” she said.
(AFP)
But whose side are we really on?
“We have been appreciative of the American efforts to pacify the hawks in Tbilisi,” [Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov] said. “Apparently these efforts have not succeeded. Quite a number of officials in Washington were really shocked when all this happened.”
(IHT)
Perhaps someone should remind the Bush administration of the moral dimension of Georgia’s best troops being in Iraq, assisting her ally the United States without complaint. One would think that should count for something when Georgia could use some assistance herself.
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This is no different from Kosovo wanting to secede from Serbia. Abkhazia certainly has the right to become part of Russia. Look at the map. If all its people want this, who are we Americans to say we will fight their wishes. Now South Ossetia should have wanted to be part of Georgia simply for convenience…but then again Georgia should have wanted to be friendly with Russia for the same reason, instead of relying on a Neocon idiot on the otherside of the world to be their “friend”.
If US technology is used to kill too many Russians in this, hopefully short, war, there will be diplomatic and cultural hell to pay in the coming years as Russia gets richer and richer and, incidentally, more free than the USA especially when you think of all the feminist laws regulating males in the US these days (IMBRA, VAWA).
US males should be looking up to the unfeminized Russian culture, not acting like a bunch of school boys playing the “great game” of geopolitical strategy in their heads.
US Republican bloggers need to be talking of how the Georgian president should not have started this yesterday.
I’d call you a raving lunatic Jack, but I just can’t bring myself to do that to the All-American Boy. Plus the Scientific Bureau of Investigation probably gets better intel than I do on the relative degrees of national feminization.