Russia is taking this “excuse” to take back the Georgia Republic before they can gain membership in NATO (thus making it much more difficult to take them back).
We are at a crossroads - we either take action, or turn our backs on the small country that has been our friend.
But the apparent lack of any meaningful action by GW indicates that he is willing to stab his friends in the back like any good politician...
If he hadn’t made a speech in Georgia and spefically expressed support of them...
It does seem that, at a minimum, GWB could cut short his China vacation. Maybe if he gave up women volleyball players for the Oval Office, our government wouldn’t be flailing for direction.
It’s FAR more likely that this was the last straw for Putin...
“Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan launch project to revive “Silk Road” on rails”
Leaders of Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan launched Thursday a railway project between the three countries, with laying the foundation of the railway’s 76-kilometres part. Turkish president called the project is open to “all other regional countries”, implying Armenia.
At a railway station in the eastern Turkish border town of Kars, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Georgia’s Mikheil Saakashvili and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev held a ground breaking ceremony for the $290 million Turkish section of the railway.
The three countries are already linked by the BP-led Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas line but trade links between Turkey and the Caucasus region are limited.
A tender last September for construction of the 76-km (47-mile) Turkish stretch of the railway was won by the Ozgun Yapi-Celikler joint venture with a bid of $289.8 million, the lowest of 14 bids.
The railroad is expected to become operational in 2011 and carry one million passangers and 6.5 million tones of cargo annually, forming a key transport connection between Asia and Europe, officials said Thursday.
It is seen very important since it will enable the Central Asian republics, world’s new oil and natural gas centers with an uninterrupted railway link.