Georgia taunted the bear, and now the bear is roaring.
Moscow said troops had raided the town of Senaki to destroy a military base. It later said they had left the town.
Russian troops also reportedly pushed into Georgia from South Ossetia, another breakaway region, and are now outside Gori, Georgian officials say.
As the fighting continued, foreign envoys were pressing for a ceasefire.
Meanwhile, at home, John McShame’s speech on the Georgia/Russia crisis seems to be lifted from Wikipedia.
If that isn’t sad enough, the neocons want “More War!” regardless of the fact that they have not looked at the full story. As Cernig states,
Needless to say, hawks in America are joined together – both far right neocons and center left Old Cold Warriors – in preferring the Georgian president’s narrative. Not because it’s especially true – although it’s becoming a bit more true as time goes on and Russia keeps pushing beyond the natural “stop line” of a purely “status quo ante” operation – but because it plays to their own prejudices better.
I’m not sure how this situation will get fixed, but war is not the answer — it never is.
