Stuck in Southeast Asia (and not even the good parts) for a good long while now and I absolutely missed the beginnings of this war, DESPITE following it two
years back!
Argh!
Anyway, it certainly seems like Genocide is the new WMD and that's terrible. Border disputes, ethnic migrations, and OIL are the heart of this and
seemingly every other conflict that's going on today.
Was South Ossetia really the target of "genocide" by the Georgian government? Part of me thinks that it doesn't really matter, as that's not
the reason why Russia is invading and supporting the so-called local militias. And what support Georgia has outside it borders has nothing (well, very little)
to do with Georgia itself. It's all about that damn pipeline.
Anyway, it'll be interesting to see the upcoming NATO talks about inclusion of Georgia into the Alliance. Will the over-stretched, understaffed and
tepidly supported military beuracracy accept a currently-under-attack nation, even if it means actually fulfilling its original mandate of kicking commie pinko
scum off their godless patch? Prooooobably not. But hey, maybe I'll be surprised.
What this further demonstrates, however, is that because of the Axis of Evil, an idea that has more to do with Tom Clancy-esque reductionist jingoism than
reality, the United States is too distracted to actually deal with international terrorism as well as the diplomatic kerfuffles that too quickly turn into
South Ossetia and Southern Lebanon (and Haiti, and Darfur, and Kenya and Zimbabwe and even goddamn Pakistan and . . . and . . . and. . .)
-murmur
years back!
Argh!
Anyway, it certainly seems like Genocide is the new WMD and that's terrible. Border disputes, ethnic migrations, and OIL are the heart of this and
seemingly every other conflict that's going on today.
Was South Ossetia really the target of "genocide" by the Georgian government? Part of me thinks that it doesn't really matter, as that's not
the reason why Russia is invading and supporting the so-called local militias. And what support Georgia has outside it borders has nothing (well, very little)
to do with Georgia itself. It's all about that damn pipeline.
Anyway, it'll be interesting to see the upcoming NATO talks about inclusion of Georgia into the Alliance. Will the over-stretched, understaffed and
tepidly supported military beuracracy accept a currently-under-attack nation, even if it means actually fulfilling its original mandate of kicking commie pinko
scum off their godless patch? Prooooobably not. But hey, maybe I'll be surprised.
What this further demonstrates, however, is that because of the Axis of Evil, an idea that has more to do with Tom Clancy-esque reductionist jingoism than
reality, the United States is too distracted to actually deal with international terrorism as well as the diplomatic kerfuffles that too quickly turn into
South Ossetia and Southern Lebanon (and Haiti, and Darfur, and Kenya and Zimbabwe and even goddamn Pakistan and . . . and . . . and. . .)
-murmur