This is a sucky situation. Unfortunately, a not too small amount of the blame for all this can be placed directly at our feet. We started all this by allowing Kosovo to unilaterally declare independence from Serbia. We can hardly blame the Ossetians for declaring independence, or the Russians for providing them military support, when we did the same thing in Kosovo. It seems childish political oneupmanship (flipping off Russia by helping the Kosovars screw Russia's friend) is more important to the Bush Administration than human lives. I hope all those who will now die can forgive us for our brain dead foreign policy.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Perhaps We Should Have Thought of This...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/09/georgia.ossetia/index.html
This is a sucky situation. Unfortunately, a not too small amount of the blame for all this can be placed directly at our feet. We started all this by allowing Kosovo to unilaterally declare independence from Serbia. We can hardly blame the Ossetians for declaring independence, or the Russians for providing them military support, when we did the same thing in Kosovo. It seems childish political oneupmanship (flipping off Russia by helping the Kosovars screw Russia's friend) is more important to the Bush Administration than human lives. I hope all those who will now die can forgive us for our brain dead foreign policy.
This is a sucky situation. Unfortunately, a not too small amount of the blame for all this can be placed directly at our feet. We started all this by allowing Kosovo to unilaterally declare independence from Serbia. We can hardly blame the Ossetians for declaring independence, or the Russians for providing them military support, when we did the same thing in Kosovo. It seems childish political oneupmanship (flipping off Russia by helping the Kosovars screw Russia's friend) is more important to the Bush Administration than human lives. I hope all those who will now die can forgive us for our brain dead foreign policy.
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