August 11, 2008

A good point - Georgia and the Russian invasion

They helped us out and are very pro-American. Why aren't we reciprocating... From Weasel Zippers:
We Helped in Iraq, Now Help us Beg Georgians.....
Good question, why aren't we doing more, a lot more. Georgia is staunchly pro-Western and in particular, pro-American. They stuck by us and sent troops to Iraq and Kosovo and Russia has quickly turned into an enemy. This is precisely why so many countries are so hesitant to ally themselves with the US. C'mon George, do something......
As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: �Why won�t America and Nato help us? If they won�t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?�

A similar sense of betrayal coursed through the conversations of many Georgians here yesterday as their troops retreated under shellfire and the Russian Army pressed forward to take full control of South Ossetia.

Smoke rose as Russian artillery fire exploded less than half a mile from the bridge marking South Ossetia�s border with Georgia. A group of Georgian soldiers hastily abandoned their lorry after its wheels were shot out and ran across the border.

Miriyan Gogolashvili, of Tkviav, said: �The Russians will be here tomorrow. They want to show us and the world how powerful they are. Tomorrow it will be Ukraine and nobody in the West is doing anything to stop them. Why were our soldiers in Kosovo and Iraq if we don�t get any help from the West now?� he asked.

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The guy has a point. We did serious harm during the Kuwait war when we promised aid to the Kurds and then failed to deliver. We are doing the same here... Posted by DaveH at August 11, 2008 2:36 PM
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