President Bush, little more than an hour after returning to Washington from the Olympics in Beijing, bluntly warned Russia that its military operations were damaging its reputation and were "unacceptable in the 21st century."
Well, if there is one thing Bush should have learned (but hasn't) is about how military operations can damage a nation's reputation. You can bet your ass that the Russians have lost no time in pointing out the hypocrisy of the Bush Administration on this issue, an administration that, for many years, opted for military solutions as a first choice.
The Myanmar Junta tortures and imprisons Buddhist monks without any due process and when called to account for that by the Bush Administration, says: "You do the same things."
And now the Russians say the same.
I cannot, in good conscience, entirely lay the blame on George Bush, for it was Bill Clinton who opted for a sustained aerial bombardment of Serbia to get the Serbs to let rebellious provinces go. That was for good reasons, but the precedent was still set. If you were to read some of the stories on Pravda, you would see that the Russians are alleging a bunch of atrocities by the Georgians. They may be true, they are likely not, but those are the stories the Russians are telling their people.
As Bush told stories to the American people.
Pot, meet kettle.
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This reminds me of the U.S. annexation of Texas in a way. Bordering nation has a province you want. You send in a bunch of your citizens to take up residence there, and over time have your citizens declare their independence. Then you send'em aid and shit, then outright annex them and send in the Army.
ReplyDeleteGreat Powers do what they want in their own back yards, and Georgia forgot that little truism. And is now learning it again. They should have remembered that Russians don't play. Grozney -- or its ruins, I should say -- is only 120 miles away from Tbilisi as the bird flies, after all. They'll be lucky if Russia simply accepts Saakashvili's head on a pike and a sincere apology without rubbelizing Tbilisi the way they did Grozney...
And oh, the suspicious quick response of the Russians to the Georgian invasion? Not so quick. They had an entire armor division sitting 20 miles north of the South Ossetian border in Vladikavkaz -- because it was the rapid response division stationed 20 miles away from Chechnya in case Chechnya heated up again. Same deal with all the jet fighters and bombers used to bomb Georgia. They were already all there in the region -- to deal with Chechnya. It's Georgia's downfall that they happen to border Chechnya...
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