UncategorizedGeorgia/Russia: A good cop emerges, but is that a tin badge?This business of a U.S. ballistic-missile defense system in Poland is a long story, but if you’re still reading my posts on the...
OttawaGeorgia/Russia: On the West’s rhetoric" I have staked my country’s fate on the West’s rhetoric about democracy and liberty." — Mikheil Saakashvili, in this morning’s...
OttawaGeorgia/Russia: So now I’m in a fight and Sarko is seriously not helping. I feel Saakashviliesque.So much has happened. Let me catch you up. In addition to umpty-dump blog postings on the current unpleasantness in South Ossetia...
GeneralGeorgia on my mindHere are a few things that are not especially relevant in assessing the situation in Georgia today. 1) Whether the Georgian...
UncategorizedGeorgia/Russia: This just gets better and betterI know I am beginning to try the patience of some readers who wonder why a little warlet in a tiny distant country...
GeneralMegapundit: What’s good for the Balkans is bad for the CaucasusMust-reads: Marcus Gee and George Jonas on the Georgia situation. Russia awakes We should have seen it coming, and it’s unlikely...
UncategorizedGeorgia/Russia: When France negotiates with Putin, it sucks to be GeorgianA dynamite article by Arnaud Leparmentier in Le Monde gives t he tick-tock of France’s participation in ceasefire talks between...
UncategorizedGeorgia/Russia: McCain/Obama: Tomato/TomahtoThis is what makes democracy so great. Choice : At last, hard-won bipartisan consensus around a set of exquisitely useless...
UncategorizedGeorgia/Russia: Mr. Yglesias is from Missouri, Mr. Obama from inside the boxJohn McCain today said "We are all Georgians." Matthew Yglesias, a formidable young liberal U.S. blogger (now at a new, frankly...