[kj] (OT)Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?

B. Oliver Sheppard bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
Sun Sep 7 11:01:35 EDT 2008


And here is yet another one, a piece in the Washington Post written in
response to John McCain's preposterous statement that "We are all
Georgians."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401360.html

Some people consider the Washington Post to have a liberal bias.

SO: That is one 1) article from an avowed conservative that says, wait a
minute, the Georgians are the ones that fucked up; one 2) from Gary
Brecher, author of _The War Nerd_, who claims he is a classical American
conservative (not a Bush-style neo-con); and 3) a liberal paper. Three
different ideological backgrounds, all claiming rightly that Georgia
instigated this conflict, and really fucked up in invading Ossetia, half
of which is attached like a set of testicles beneath Russian and into
Georgia's borders, and the upper half of which is in Russia, but all of
whom consider themselves to be ethnic Russians, not Georgians.

States generally have a mandate to protect their citizens and peoples
when they are attacked. Indeed, that is a large part of the
justification for the existence of nation-states to begin with. The
hysterical Western/American reaction is absurd -- as if the old Cold War
USSR has landed the Red Army in Pennsylvania circa 1965 or something.
What the hel. In the meantime, Condi Rice signed a deal to put US
missiles in Poland, Russia's border. Imagine if Russia did that with
Canada. But they didn't; they went into a part o Ossetia and staunched a
Georgian assault on ethnic Russians.

-Oliver



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