Weiner sees an opportunity to take the side of Freedom, and choses the communist thug instead.
I don’t think Georgia is a bastion of freedom, either.
It would have been a mistake to put them in NATO, IMHO.
The US was wrong on Kosovo and is paying the price.
Pretty good take on the Russia/Georgia war. Never heard of the author before, though.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article6007.html
“It is very difficult to imagine that the Georgians launched their attack against U.S. wishes. The Georgians rely on the United States, and they were in no position to defy it. This leaves two possibilities. The first is a massive breakdown in intelligence, in which the United States either was unaware of the existence of Russian forces, or knew of the Russian forces but — along with the Georgians — miscalculated Russia’s intentions. The second is that the United States, along with other countries, has viewed Russia through the prism of the 1990s, when the Russian military was in shambles and the Russian government was paralyzed. The United States has not seen Russia make a decisive military move beyond its borders since the Afghan war of the 1970s-1980s. The Russians had systematically avoided such moves for years. The United States had assumed that the Russians would not risk the consequences of an invasion.”
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