[SolidWood]

Keep the snide comments to yourself. I am fully aware that the aggressive Russians are always up to havoc. But our involvement in the Serbia-Kosovo matter gives Moscow an excellent argument. If the West supports the secession of Kosovo what argument do we have to deny it to Ossetia!? I am not saying that we should cowtow to the Russians now and let Ossetia secede. We should fully support Georgia for their sovereign rights. But the issue of the Balkans needs to be adressed. At the very least majority Serb areas in Bosnia should be given to Serbia in exchange for losing Kosovo.

[agere_contra]

Well said. Russia is completely wrong on this - and we were completely wrong on Serbia. We had better be ready to admit our error because they will throw it in our faces.

I hope that (at the least) we are selling heavily discounted arms to the Georgians at this very minute. A ground war in Georgia would be brutal, but if the Georgians are up for it then we should do our part - and make sure the Turks don't gain influence there in our stead.

[MarMema]

You are right, the Kosovo precedent will haunt us perhaps for decades.

[Cheburashka]

Keep the snide comments to yourself.

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A “Blame America First” person. Yeah, yeah, you try to cover it by saying “oh, yeah, the other guy did this or that, but the primary responsibility is America, always America.”

What I said is the truth. You don't like it, ok, continue not to like it. You have your first amendment rights, so do I. You exercise yours, and I'll exercise mine. And don't try to tell me not to.