Posted on 08/12/2008 2:45:46 PM PDT by Doctor13
American blunders fostered the situation, and now the United States will pay a high global price
War became unavoidable in the Caucasus when Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili sent the country's military to "liberate" the autonomous region of South Ossetia from its Moscow-backed local authorities. While Georgia and Russia bear principal responsibility for a conflict that both have been courting for years, the United States also shares the blame. And now America's interests will suffer, not only in Georgia and the former Soviet Union but around the world.
South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and even Georgia itself may seem like small and distant lands to most Americans, but the war there—and the mistakes that led to it—may affect them directly in unexpected and powerful ways. Hopefully U.S. officials, as well as former officials and pundits in both parties who supported them in enabling Saakashvili's dangerous behavior, will learn a valuable lesson about unintended consequences. The United States remains the world's only superpower, but it cannot afford too many more blunders on this scale.
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Ok... Here comes the Blame America Bastards!!! They never miss a beat! NEVER!!!
It’s Bush’s fault.
“When in doubt, Blame America”
Oh well whats new.
How has Georgia been “courting” this conflict? Oh yahh, they didn’t allow Russia to annex half their country. Oh man, they were really begging for a fight.
Blame America. What an asshat. The Russians have been stirring up the S. Ossetians for years. That group made terrorist attacks into Georgia. Georgia had to respond. This gave Russia their reason to attack Georgia. We support Georgia for NATO.. What a direct connection.
We should fully vet Georgia and The Ukraine for NATO admission. This will make the Soviets oooops...Russians head explode.
I'm sure that the omaba twit will straignten this out. Just be patient.
And (amazingly) the result fits the MSM hate-America template!
Wow! Rush called it saying wait this will be spun to be our fault that people died.
It’s getting wearisome, y’all.
Didn’t take long for the Soviet suck ups in the press to blame the US. May their circulation continue in a downward spiral.
So I guess we should never help a fledgling democracy because it might provoke Putin or some other dictator?
This guy is full of it.
The American enemedia sounds just like Pravda.
This “journalist” obviously believes that Russia planned, organized, supplied, and deployed the equivelent of two armored or mechanized divisions with supporting air and naval forces for a coordinated attack on Georgian positions, strongpoints, logistical centers, transportation hubs, and ports in the 12 hours between the supposed Georgian attack on Osettia and the start of the Russian advance into Georgia. If the Russians are capable of such an operational feat there is little hope for Europe, let alone the independent Republics. We may as well surender now. (sarc alert)
It’s always our fault. If a tree falls in the forest, it’s our fault.
That said, I think Spengler was right: the Russians have a plan. We don’t. And that sums it up.
I blame the British. They offered promises to Denikin’s White Army and the Georgian Mensheviks, then quit the entire Caucasus and left the Georgians surrounded by Bolshevik Soviet Socialist Republics.
America Sucks....
the same refrain from the same insane
Always!!! (grin)
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