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Originally Posted by Orange_Juice  So we are just the good guys spreading happiness and they are evil spreading badness!
I get it now! I'll just keep telling myself, We are good, they are bad, we are good they are bad, we are good they are bad............. |
I suppose you could just look at the surface and be obtuse if you want to. I'm not sure that really gets your understanding very far or helps shed light on the issues involved.
You have to go back from the events of the last week a good long while and look at the area (Russia, Georgia and the disputed breakaway territories of Georgia). You need to look at the policies of the Georgia and Russia toward those territories and what those territories represent to each country. You also need to look at the people in charge that includes a power hungry Putin that is subverting his own country's Constitution by remaining in power by deception. His policies toward his neighbors and Russia's actions in the last 4-5 years.
Putin, the evidence is fairly clear, has poisoned leaders in neighboring countries, murdered dissidents (remember the guy in the UK?), suppress dissent in in Russia, slapped controls on the press, rebuilt his military, fought a series of bloody running wars very quietly in his own country and now capped it off with military adventurism in Georgia. This is merely the most recent incident of a long pattern from Putin.
In Georgia in particular, ever since the civil war in Georgia, Russia has been attempting to undermine Georgia and reintegrate South Ossetia. They have issued Russian passports to the population and provided Russian social programs to them. The location of South Ossetia makes this a more grievous problem than it might otherwise be.
It would be like Ontario breaking away and getting support from the US. Then, when Canada decided that was a problem for them, the US overruns the entire country of Canada.
With that explanation, what about that sounds like Iraq to you? I think you are trying to compare apples and airplane tires.