Russia

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...

" I have staked my country’s fate on the West’s rhetoric about democracy and liberty." — Mikheil Saakashvili, in this morning’s...

So much has happened. Let me catch you up. In addition to umpty-dump blog postings on the current unpleasantness in South Ossetia...

Here are a few things that are not especially relevant in assessing the situation in Georgia today. 1) Whether the Georgian...

From the Los Angeles Times :

I know I am beginning to try the patience of some readers who wonder why a little warlet in a tiny distant country...

Must-reads: Marcus Gee and George Jonas on the Georgia situation. Russia awakes We should have seen it coming, and it’s unlikely...

A dynamite article by Arnaud Leparmentier in Le Monde gives t he tick-tock of France’s participation in ceasefire talks between...

This is what makes democracy so great. Choice : At last, hard-won bipartisan consensus around a set of exquisitely useless...

John McCain today said "We are all Georgians." Matthew Yglesias, a formidable young liberal U.S. blogger (now at a new, frankly...