DE BORCHGRAVE: Israel of the Caucasus?

The Russian attack in Georgia was not baited, it was planned and executed. Mr. Saakashvili's mistake was the belief that once a country is trained to stand on it's feet, American's feel it can take care of itself. We are poor at supporting insurgencies. Georgia had no air power. Their training and infrastructure were incomplete (General Petraeus could have taught them about complexity if they would have waited) and their timing was lousy. Bad decision for Saakashvili equals oppotunity for Russia. It has also placed Europe at risk of energy intimidation. Sarkozy's complete withdrawal agreement had some suspicious loopholes in it. Bad decision number two for Saakashvili. Starting during a change in command in the U.S. Bad decision number three, chaos to ensue.

European unity is a joke. The US can no longer be expected to defend Europe. Europe must quickly forge a true military and political union or be chopped up by Russia and her Moslem allies. Georgia is just the beginning.

Georgians should kick out Michael Saakasvilli and replace him with someone who would build his foreign policy based on what is in best Georgian’s interests. If US was not trying to get Georgia into NATO, the latest events would have never happened. It’s time for Georgia to think what is the best for their country. When you are somebody’s puppet you will have to pay the consequences for being a puppet sooner or later. I would really feel sorry for Georgians when they get hit by Iranians, assuming that Georgia is a future base for launching an attack on Iran.

Mr. De Borchgrave's comments show an uncharacteristic ignorance of the sequence of events in Georgia as reflected by the statement that "Mr. Saakashvili ordered an attack on South Ossetia" on 8 August. In fact, the movement of Russian forces, tanks and armored personnel carriers, across the Georgian national border (through the northern tunnel) has been shown to have begun on 6 August. The Georgian action was purely defensive and was launched only in response to armed aggression by the Russian Federation. Responding to the comments of "analyst", is it in Georgia's national interest to ignore an invading army? Put the blame where it belongs, on a Putin with a vision of a reconstituted Soviet empire. We can also blame the US State Department and DoD for the usual "of course we will stand with an independent and democratic Georgia!" assurances that once again prove hollow to an ally whose trust in us was demonstrated by Georgia's willingness to shed their own blood on our behalf in Iraq. Having been thus emboldened, what is to stop Putin from a next step in Transdnestr, the Crimea, and into Kiyiv itself? Answer: nothing but a US aircraft carrier in the Black Sea and a firm exercise of force. The situation echoes a certain other series of actions in the 20th century: first cross the Austrian border, then Czechoslovakia, then Poland. Their competence and boldness grows with each unchecked expansion. We need more living space! Russia must be defined by where Russians live!

Georgia is hardly the epitome of freedom and liberty in any sense, democratic or otherwise. Moreover, its claim to South Ossetia is a leftover from its Menshevik days before being crushed into the Soviet Union. Why should the U.S. care about South Osettia? Moreover, it is just more of the Same hypocrisy coming out of U.S. foreign policy -- Bombing Belgrade to support the break-away Kosovo, a revolt that was itslef supported by Albanian Muslim extremists tied to al Qaueda? All the talk of slaughter and genocide were proven to be B.S. (That's not to say there wasn't ethnic atrocity, but it was on BOTH sides -- and for the last 10 years the U.S. has turned a blind eye to the near total ethnic cleansing of Serbs out of Kosovo, including the burning of churches dating before the Middle Ages.) Moreover, it is the U.S. that is acting Imperial here -- intervening all over the world, setting up puppet regimes with quasi-authoritarians at the helm, ala Saakashvili -- as if the all neighborhoods of the world are its own living room. And then to make the world safe for "democracy" -- a word derided by the writers of its own constitution since it always leads to class warfare, collectivization, and victimization of minorities. (Note: Neocons don't bother trying to make the world safe for freedom and liberty, just democracy...)

Hey Ronnie Honduras, I'm sick of you anti American morons writing your leftist commie crap in every website that I visit. You don't know what you're babbling about, you just copy & paste lies from leftwing sites that originate from Imperialist Russia. Yes, it is THEY that desire to take over the world and you have been getting away with it for too long. Talk about "puppet" regimes! (Poland, North Korea, etc, etc) You know NOTHING of history, you just listen to propagandist liars and never question what you are inhaling. I guess not many conservatives read the Washington Times since few have written here.

Great article, it made some things make a whole lot more sense. The Georgian-Israeli Axis explains why American neocons were so upset about events in Georgia. The neocons claim to be interested in advancing democracy through the world, but they are just a front group for Israel. They only really get excited about issues that potentially affect Israel. It is ironic, that I as an American, owe a debt of gratitude to the Russians for putting a stick in the spokes of a likely Israeli backdoor plan to bomb Iran. Such a strike would have only deepened the problems America faces in the Muslim world, that it needs to extricate itself from. We have much bigger fish to fry (e.g. the growing power of China). Maybe we should consider bombing Israel pre-emptively before they make more trouble for us. The Iranians, despite their flaws, have oil they can sell us. The Israelis just have snake oil.

Most NATO countries (the U.S. being the major exception) have no backbone and could not fight there way out of a paper bag.