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

[Brendan]

Condi Rice was in NZ recently, from what I remember a student organisation
offered a reward to anyone who could arrest her as a war crim. Made me
laugh. Cops did a bunch of frowning in the press etc, telling everyone it
was a seriously bad idea to even try, which I imagine would be an
understatement. Still...good on 'em.


> 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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