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Monday, August 11, 2008
Georgia on My Mind
• Foreign Policy
• Russia
Andrew Sullivan on Georgia:
The US will do nothing but diplomacy because there is no vital interest at stake in Georgia, and because the US military is completely absorbed in two wars that make this Georgia-Russia conflict a tea-party. Russia knows this; the US knows this; the EU knows this; and the Georgian leadership was too cocky to absorb it.
Correction. The US does have a vital interest in Georgia as an oil gateway from Central Asian oil fields to the West.
The US will not do anything about it other than ratch up its rhetoric as it becomes apparent that hostiles will end soon. Why the no action? Because the US is preoccupied with their own preemptive war.
The legacy of Bush is the discarding of International Law that has given cover to Russia’s “tea-party.”
Posted by Bob W
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