Exactly. I agree with this...Russia is just trying to tell the west that they are not going to sit back idly and let the west gobble up all their influence. Georgia, by invading O.S., gave them a perfect chance to flex their muscle and everyone is having hysterics over yet another boogey man.
I'm still mystified at why we have been encouraging Georgia to join NATO when we have no ability to treat them like a member of NATO - namely, fight their wars for them. The entire thing reminds me of when we encouraged the Iraqis to rise up against Saddam and then we turned our backs on them.
Well, maybe I'm not mystified. Dick Cheney's fingerprints are all over both issues.
Because the people currently setting American foreign policy are drunk with power, they didn't deserve to have granted them.
Because these notwits don't listen to the military about military matters, their diplomatis about matter diplomatic, their spooks about INTEL matters, America's scientists about Global warming; or the PEOPLE about the fact that we KNOW damned well they're lying to us about such fundamentals as the rate of inflation, and the lack of viable employment.
Because these notwits are idealogues, most of whom never had to to do doodly-squat to achive power because we are living in what is rapidly becoming a freaking corrupted empire --- a ahmocracy complete with courtiers, nepotism rampant in every nexus of power, overt corruption of our democratic system masked as campaign contributions; bribery called FREE speech and on and on and on.
Enjoy you right to guns, and you abortions, and your gays in teh military, because while the American people were bickering over trifles like that, these morons on both dies of the aisle have thoughly screwed up YOUR COUNTRY.
There...I feel better now.
Thank yoiu for letting me rant.