Taunting the Bear ( Regarding the War over South Ossetia )

New York Times ^ | August 9, 2008 | JAMES TRAUB

[redstateconfidential]

JasonC wrote:
Not if Ahmadinejad gets his dirt nap on the first day it won’t. All it will take is a whiff of actual decisiveness from the west, and all this weak opposition will evaporate like a puff of smoke. Moral cowardice in the west is their only card.”

I am afraid that our so called “leaders” have moral cowardice in Spades.

[Marine_Uncle]

Filed. China has the world spot light. Should be a simple matter of rolling the tanks into Georgia for the sake of peace.

[TigersEye]

...since Mr. Saakashvili understands that doing so would almost certainly put an end to the NATO bid; indeed, Russia may well calculate that NATO will continue to exclude Georgia so long as the country is embroiled in hostilities along its border.

Good article about a complicated affair.

[neverdem]

“Russia can have at its borders only enemies or vassals.”

It doesn't matter who said it. It's the thought that counts. So much for the "end of history."