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...
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