US backs Georgia territory integrity; sends envoy

Reuters ^ | Aug 8, 2008 | Susan Cornwell

[SolidWood]

Red Dawn!

[mainestategop]

If Obama is elected, chances are that this will give Putin and the Russkies the green light to rev up the red steamroller and bring back the cold war and the USSR without any resistance whatsoever.

[TheZMan]

I honestly don’t know what to make of happenings in Georgia.

[McGruff]

This may clear up some of the confusion. The war that Russia wants.

[Gay State Conservative]

I honestly don’t know what to make of happenings in Georgia.

Vlad Putin,(former?) KGB Agent,has sent Soviet....sorry,Russian....tanks into a former satellite country that is now an ally of the West.

[brytlea]

I can’t decide if it’s a REAL BIG THING or if it will turn into just a skirmish (not to say nothing, but nothing with a big impact). I’ve been trying to read what I can and I still don’t know.
susie

[wideawake]

Thanks for the excellent link.

I wonder if the wandering crew of Putin fellators that used to wander these boards will now pipe up against the Georgians.

[Glenn]

Georgia should let the territory rejoin Russia. It’s what they want and Russia has no objection. It’s not really been a part of Georgia to begin with. This won’t go beyond Georgia.

[Tzimisce]

Quick - send them a strong letter.

Let’s demand the UN do something.

That’ll fix the problem.....

[Sender]

Well I am ready here in Cumming if they bomb us next...can’t hear anything yet. Oh, wait...never mind.

[AU72]

The MSM only has Election filters on and can only try to analyze who this conflict helps.

And they are going to suffer multiple injuries if they try to contort this in Obama's favor.

[RexBeach]

This is beginning to sound like a Joel Rosenburg novel.

I wonder what Mr. Obama would say to Mr. Putin about this?

Ideas?

[B4Ranch]

ping

[Moose4]

I don’t either. This is way too complex to reduce down to a few column inches in a newspaper or on a web page.

If the Georgian army really did kill Russian peacekeeping troops, then you can *almost* understand them sending reinforcements into Ossetia. But if the Russians really did bomb an airbase outside of South Ossetia, near Tblisi as was reported this morning, that ratchets the conflict up another notch or three.

It sounds like the Russians were protecting the Ossetian rebels and got caught when the Georgians decided enough was enough. But at this point I’m not sure if we can trust any of the reporting coming out of there, including casualty figures—everybody has an agenda, and neither side has a solid track record of unbiased reporting.

}:-)4

[SolidWood]

This won’t go beyond Georgia.

That's the folly. That's the same thing Britain and France said of Hitler. "Give him Rhineland, give him Austria, give him Sudetenland, give him this and give him that. He will be satisfied." Hitler used the same arguments Russia does. Russia want's to gobble up the lost Soviet/Czarist territories in Caucasus and Central Asia. They won't stop in Ossetia. Wait a few decades and they'll border Iran again.

[B-Chan]

Still from Threads (1984)

[E. Cartman]

It's not our fight. We don't have the resources. The public won't support more foreign adventures. A truly great power knows what's important to its interests and what isn't.

Leave this to Georgia and Russia.

[SolidWood]

Can I dust off the Ostrich caricatures from 1940 already? Where is the line drawn on Russia’s lust for power? When Russians are stationed in Venezuela, Cuba and on the border of Iran and Turkey, we’ll know it’s too late. It’s step by step going there. Laugh me off now as hysteric, but the writing is on the wall.

[E. Cartman]

This is payback for us STUPIDLY supporting Kosovo. We're already overextended militarily, financially and politically and shouldn't get drawn into what's at bottom nothing more than a family squabble.

[redstateconfidential]

We haven’t deployed Metal Storm for air defense yet, but our Possum Storm Cannons have brought down 4 Russkie Bombers!
Yee HAw!