Georgia War Proves US Needs Better Allies
The USA finds itself in the uneviable position of possibly having to show Georgia and the world what kind of ally it is. It will likely be unable to bring much to the table.
View ArticleMcCain ready to start World War III?
True to form, John McCain is calling for NATO to deploy peacekeeping troops to Georgia:NATO's North Atlantic Council should convene in emergency session to demand a ceasefire and begin discussions on...
View ArticleHas Russia really invaded Georgia proper?
In my previous diary on this topic, I examined the background to the South Ossetian war. Today, I try to examine the current situation in the war.Yesterday, most of us probably heard the news that...
View Articleattn: Obama senior strategists - reconsider Wes Clark
To the senior strategists of the Obama campaign -You have not yet announced your selection of VP running mate. Before you make your announcement, please meditate on the following two words which have...
View ArticleHow Bush helped start another war
Facts:George Bush once again misused his office as the head of the world's greatest superpower and helped start another war.How?
View ArticleBreaking: Russia Ends Operations in Georgia (upd.)
This just in from BBC and Sky News; the news has not yet appeared on their respective websited, so I'm drawing upon live statements from the television channels: The Russian President, Dmitriy Medvedev...
View ArticleAge of the Warhawk: NeoCons Set the Stage for Russia-Georgia and Israel-Iran...
"It's 1938 and Iran is Germany" (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/787766.html). Thus spoke Likud boss Benjamin Netanyahu, with a degree of hawkish-ness that most other civilized world leaders dare...
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Georgia, Russia, South Ossetia and the Rest of the World: A Primer on the...
(Crosspost of sorts from Green Mountain Daily) Looking at comments around the blogosphere, as well as the void in my own head, it seemed clear that there's a lot of misunderstanding and good ol'...
View ArticleHow Else To Stop Georgia's Genocide?
Now that the war in Georgia is cooling down, we in the West have to ask ourselves: Could it have gone better, and if so, how?We have to step off the anti-Imperialist soapbox a moment and ask what...
View ArticleBush statement on Georgia: WTF? (updated)
He mispronounced Saakashvili. No surprise. He mispronounced Sarkozy. Duh. He's sending Condi to France (to eat cheese and discuss surrender?). He mispronounced Tbilisi. He's sending the Secretary of...
View ArticleBush sends U.S. troops to Georgia to deliver humanitarian aid
The Press Association reports US plans to send troops to Georgia.The US is to send troops to embattled Georgia in the form of a humanitarian aid exercise, President George Bush said.Mr Bush said...
View ArticleRice Missing Again as "Putin Determined to Strike in Georgia"
One of the most enduring moments of the 9/11 Commission hearings came when Condoleezza Rice casually recalled the now infamous August 6, 2001 presidential daily brief (PDB). "I believe," she said,...
View ArticleUS to send troops to Georgia?
This unnoticed storyon Reuters has me worried."You have heard the statement by the U.S. president that the United States is starting a military-humanitarian operation in Georgia," Saakashvili said in a...
View ArticleUpdated: Cooler Russian Heads Agree: It's Wag the Dog
Update: the information from Geiiga (in comments below) that Karl Rove made a special trip to the Crimea recently provides further evidence of the correctness of this analysis.My last diary analyzed...
View ArticleDid the McCain campaign encourage the invasion of S Ossetia?
EDIT: i changed the title because the word i was using was too restrictive and really just sillyLadies and gentlemen, this is my first diary after being a DailyKos reader (is that what you call a...
View Article"Georgian" video may really be of bombed S. Ossetian capital
Here's something you won't see on the US TV networks:American broadcaster CNN has been accused of using the wrong pictures in their coverage of the conflict in South Ossetia. A Russian cameraman says...
View ArticleToday, we are all Arkansans - what McCain isn't saying
After hearing John McCain say that, "We are all Georgians," I can't help but think about what McCain isn't saying today.Is John McCain speaking out in concern and support of slain Arkansas Democratic...
View ArticleUS Troops in Georgia?
Look for it: Bush is sending troops to Georgia. Why, is the big question. Do we really think we can stop the Russians? Does George want to confront his close friend, Vladimir? Does McCain have a part...
View ArticleKarl Rove, Crimea, Condi, Randy Scheunemann, Georgia
What really happened in South Ossetia? August 8, 2008 MOSCOW - Georgian troops launched a massive assault on the breakaway province of South Ossetia on Friday, taking control of much of the region and...
View ArticleCondi's Got Georgia on her mind.
After an attack on South Ossetia by our puppet leader in Georgia got a response that was apparently unexpected and surprising to our brain trust in Washington, (How could they not figure this one...
View ArticleRice Crispies
"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it." Condoleezza Rice, August 13, 2008. Perhaps...
View ArticleThis is my first...It's always awkward the first time
Strangely, I would've thought that as a native Californian I'd have a little more immunity from the anti-Obama e-mails. But, yesterday I received this in my Inboxmore below the fold
View ArticleDid Granpappy and Randy start WW III?
This past weekend Russia inavaded the soverign nation of Georgia, after the unprovoked attack of South Ossetia. In the following days after the attack and Russia's subsequent invasion of Georgia, to...
View ArticleGeorgian TIMELINE as seen by the UN Security Council
This dairy began as a push against what I have seen in the media this week as our forth estate "covers" the Georgian conflict. However, as I began writing, I began feeling, and what follows is a very...
View ArticleFaux News try to censor the real world (South Ossetia)
Faux News thought they had a coup when they brought in a 12 year old girl who fled the South Ossetia war zone. They believed the neocon BS that whoever was fleeing was running away from those...
View ArticleBreaking: George Bush responsible for South Ossetia invasion
So I hear on Free Speech Radio News today that US special forces trained the same exact Georgian troops that invaded South Ossetia just days or weeks before the invasion. And so then I looked and...
View ArticleFox Censorship: 12 year old tells the truth about Georgia
A 12 year old girl visiting family in South Ossetia speaks out on how the bombing started. The young girl and her mother blame Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for bombing South Ossetia for two...
View ArticleFox gets punk'd by 12 year old Ossetian girl
Wow, Faux really blew it here, bringing in a 12 year old Ossetian girl "hero" to talk about how bad the Russian aggression was, first-hand, only to have the girl stop the flow of the interview and...
View ArticleMore "nuances" in the Georgia - Russia conflict - UPDATED
I've been blogging about the Georgia - Russia conflict as have many others. This post was written with the background of these others posted at Reality Window in mind. Messing with history in...
View ArticleSmoldering Feud, Then War---Tensions at Obscure Border Led to Georgia Russia...
All quotes and information from "Smoldering Feud, Then War---Tensions at Obscure Border Led to Georgia Russia Clash," The Wall Street Journal, Saturday/Sunday, August 16-17, 2008, page 1.Tension in...
View ArticleSTRATEGERY '08: The Neocons' Caucusus Project
Here's a primer on what has been unfolding in the Caucusus, and how it has affected the political debate here in America. I'm aware this has been blogged about here before, this is just my take on it.
View ArticleAre Neocons Scamming Us On the Russo-Georgian Conflict?
Not everyone is as naive as the Straussians assume. There is beginning to be lots of speculation concerning the Russo-Georgian conflict that erupted a little more than a week ago. HuffingtonPost.com...
View ArticleGeorgia -- Things are getting even stickier
The New York Times is reporting that Russian troops have detained 21 Georgian soldiers in the Georgian port of Poti. The Georgian soldiers, and 5 U.S.-owned Humvees that were in the port awaiting...
View ArticleWill Republican attempt to restart Cold War accidentally remind people of...
For the last seven years, Republicans have poked the real pain we felt on 9/11 to convince us that small nations who weren't involved in those attacks would be an "existential" threat to the United...
View ArticleTblisi, Georgia may be more important than Atlanta, Georgia...
in the current presidential campaign. Is it possible that the Bush administration and Republican strategists urged on--through their emissary, the ever loyal warrior Condoleeza--an attack on South...
View ArticleThe Georgia/South Ossetia/Russia/US Crisis
The question is: why would Georgia's president Saakashvili invade a sworn enemy, which has a Russian peace keeping force stationed there to defend Ossetia's autonomy? It would appear to be a suicide...
View ArticleA Visit to a South Ossetian Village Illuminates Georgians’ Views
The roads and kitchen gardens of Khetagurovo, in South Ossetia (Georgia) are marked with large craters created by artillery shells. Many of the craters are close together. A Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleOn Touring The World, Or, Blogging-It's A Collective Thing
For the past two weeks we have paid more attention to the rest of the world than usual, what with the Olympics drawing our attention to Asia, and the conflict in the Balkans forcing us to learn that...
View ArticleConversations with a non voter
This diary is nothing more than my best recollection of a couple of conversations with a non voting individual referred to as joven, which is Spanish for young man.
View ArticleUh oh..Saakashvili-o's!
Folks, it seems as if everyone's favorite Georgian President is spoiling for a Round 2 with Moscow.
View Article500 Dead located in South Ossetia
From Reuters Via the NYT:"Preliminary information received by the investigation team by questioning neighbors and relatives showed that over 1,600 people died in South Ossetia as a result of the...
View ArticleThe Bush Doctrine
Okay, I'm not up for the post of VP, but I've got to admit I didn't know what was meant by the term: The Bush Doctrine
View ArticleNYT: Georgia Lied about Russia.
What a surprise. Two days after the election, the NYT admits that (I guess 'we are all Georgians' no longer) Georgia lied about everything.NYTTBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent...
View ArticleGeorgia: *now* they tell us
A week ago it was the BBC; today it's the New York Times finally revealing to the world what those who read the left press were well aware of from day one - events in South Ossetia and Georgia were not...
View ArticleWas Georgia Invasion of S. Ossetia a Neo-Con October Surprise?
Tom Hayden, long time anti war activist, has a very interesting article on TPM entitled "Was Georgia a Neo-Con Conspiracy? A Lesson for Obama."It now appears that the same neo-conservatives who...
View ArticleWhat is in Georgia's future?
So what is going to happen to Georgia in 2009? Will it settle down over there or will it heat up and boil over like it did a few months ago. The latest news from the region hasn't been encouraging...
View ArticleATTENTION OBAMA ADMINISTRATION - End the Brinksmanship Diplomacy in Georgia
Urge the Obama Administration to end its brinksmanship in Georgia and throughout the former Soviet Union and ask them to cancel NATO military exercises scheduled to Start this week. (May 6, 2009).The...
View ArticleEuropean Union, Kosovo, Northern Cyprus, Moldova with Transdnistria, and the...
If i must choose the first and more important cause for the creation of the European Union surely i would choose the wish of peace between some europeans after the WWII. After long years of cold war,...
View ArticleMcCain Honored by Country He Put First - Georgia
Throughout his failed 2008 presidential run, Republican John McCain campaigned on a theme of "Country First." As it turns out, that country was Georgia. After his bellicose August 2008 declaration to...
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