August 27, 2008
The conventional wisdom has it that this month's eruption of violence between Russia and Georgia played squarely into the hands of John McCain. With pundits and hacks fulminating about a return to the Cold War, McCain has ratcheted up the rhetoric, supposedly sending a muscular to the Kremlin. ...
go to article »August 26, 2008
There something about the behavior of some Americans in the lead-up to the recent crisis in the Caucasus that stinks. I have touched on it in a number of posts. Now someone has nailed it. In this previous post, I quoted from a Washington Post article that discussed the business activities of one...
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Nazarian says that the real winner in the war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia might be U.S. presidential candidate John McCain. The blogger also believes a new Cold War is in the making. ...
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After his initial choice for campaign song, Abba’s Dancing Queen, was objected to by the republican-supporting group Americans United Against Swedes And Gays, John McCain seized on current affairs and snagged Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind” before democratic rival Obama get’s to it, repo...
go to article »August 24, 2008
Biden on Syria: Qifa Nabki rounded up Biden quotes on Syria and the region: “There are plenty of reasons to mistrust Assad, but there could be real benefits to hard-headed diplomacy. Syria is the common denominator of many problems - in Lebanon , the Palestinian territories, and to a lesser ext...
go to article »August 22, 2008
Vadim Nikitin of the Foreign Policy Association Russia blog, analyzes the parallel coverage of the South Ossetia conflict by US and Russian media, saying “The US media covered the Russian invasion of Georgia and its airstrikes on Gori, while the Russian media covered the Georgian invasion of S...
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In 2004 John Laughland, a trustee of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group, wrote an article in the Guardian about Georgian President Saakashvili. It presents a sharp contrast to statements from John McCain and the US administration which hail the US-educated Georgian leader as stalwart defender...
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Stalin designed Georgia current borders. Stalin, himself half Ossetian and half Georgian, combined Abkhaziya and half of Ossetia with Georgia and consciously dividing the people of Ossetia into two parts. To solve this ethnic problem, Georgia decided to unite the two separated parts of South and Nor...
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"The goals of the United States have been to safeguard the lives of Americans"- George H.W. Bush, 1989"My duty as President right from the outset was to protect our fellow citizens."- Dmitry Medvedev, 2008US Presidential candidate John McCain should know that there is nothing unusual about a super...
go to article »August 18, 2008
NY Times reports on an epidemic of delusional thinking in Georgia:It was the question of the day. As Russian forces massed Sunday on two fronts, Georgians were heading south with whatever they could carry. When they met Western journalists, they all said the same thing: Where is the United States? W...
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