SOS Georgia
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August 30, 2008 at 4:44pm
Somebody has posted a comment signalling a wish to discuss events in Georgia.
This is a good site.
www.sosgeorgia.org
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So, what about Georgia? The moral of the whole fracas is: don’t kick a bear in the shins if you can’t carry it through. Another moral – the West will only give a damn if the bear rushes through their (our?) own back yard. Georgia has a bully for a neighbour and needs to live with that fact.
The moral I would think is that there is no West, and that watching too much TV and reading too little history will lead us down an all-too-familiar path.
No West – only the US, and the only other dependable country – the UK – powerlessly caught up in the short-sighted bureaucracy of France et al., aka the EU, an organisation that is only capable of delivering lowest-common denominator rhetoric. We can only hope that McCain’s old heart and his gun-toting deputy aren’t leading the world this christmas.
Meanwhile Sarkozy brokers utterly meaningless peace agreements while Putin makes it a point to remind us that his country inspired Animal Farm, by unzipping and taking a long one all over the dictation he gave the EU’s president to take back home in triumph. And we all write about the EU being ‘too dependent on Russian energy’ to do anything, as if sitting back in appeasement will improve the energy question.