Found Him
Lance on Aug 10 2008 at 8:59 pm | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lance's Page
Joshua hasn’t disappeared, he just isn’t gracing us with his opinions on the conflict in the Caucasus, but you can find them at Registan.net, here and here.
Heh, Insty links to him, but describes it as peevish (Josh? Peevish? Also, by linking to him kind of undercuts Josh’s complaint.) Great surprise, but Joshua makes a few good points about Russia having pushed the action using mischief in Ossetia to set off Georgia.
Outside of being unfairly peevish about people searching for information, and providing some links of use (as has Lee) I would caution Josh on this:
the plain old wrong (Russia wants to annex Georgia)
Maybe not, but I am not so sure given the behavior of Russia since Josh wrote his last post on this.
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Geez. Joshua has a real problem with appeals-to-authority type arguments. Does it constantly for and against. It’s an unknown vice to him, as I directly confronted him on it in the course of a debate once and he argued that far from being a fallacy, an appeal to external authority demonstrably reinforced his case. A matter of old dogs and new tricks perhaps.
It is far simply than that: Putin does not want to make the same mistake Bush made in 1991: the ouster of Saakashvili is the main goal.