“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” — George Orwell
By Jimmie on Aug 21, 2008 in Alliances and Allies, No More Tyrants | 0 Comments
Michael Totten, reporting from Tblisi, Georgia, spoke to some survivors of the Russian attack on Gori. I thought this bit especially interesting:
Her husband had remained behind and arrived in Tbilisi shortly before I did. “He was trying to keep the house and the fields,” she explained. “Afterward, he wanted to leave, but he was circled [...]
By Jimmie on Aug 20, 2008 in Alliances and Allies, No More Tyrants | 1 Comment
The Russian government has sent forth two mouthpieces to try to sway American public opinion this week. Mikhail Gorbachev has an op-ed in the New York Times wherein he said that Russia was just minding its own business in South Ossetia when the wicked Georgians shelled the city and forced them to act to save [...]
By Jimmie on Aug 19, 2008 in Alliances and Allies, No More Tyrants | 0 Comments
Even after signing a cease-fire agreement that says they have to leave Georgia, the Russians, like the Chorus of Policemen in the Pirates of Penzance, don’t seem to be in a very big hurry to go.
In Gori, a strategic town on Georgia’s main east-west highway, six Russian armored personnel carriers, three tanks and two [...]
By Jimmie on Aug 18, 2008 in Alliances and Allies, No More Tyrants | 1 Comment
I’ve been really disappointed with the Bush administration over the past year or so. I had thought, with the twin invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the robust and vocal support of the downtrodden in Iran, and the huge push to establish ourselves as something much less than the Devil in Southeast Asia, that the President [...]
By Jimmie on Aug 18, 2008 in No More Tyrants, The World At Large | 0 Comments
I wonder how, or if, the UN will respond to this explicit threat.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan has warned the United Nations of “serious consequences” for its staff and facilities if the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over Darfur, a U.N. envoy said on Monday.
We should watch carefully [...]
By Jimmie on Aug 15, 2008 in Alliances and Allies, Cool Columnists and Wicked Writers, No More Tyrants | 0 Comments
One more Georgia-related post then I’m on to other things. There are a couple exquisitely-written columns out today that I think are worth your time.
The first comes from Gerard Baker, my favorite columnist from across the Pond. He is, as you might expect, not particularly happy with those who have drawn moral equivalence between [...]
By Jimmie on Aug 15, 2008 in Alliances and Allies, No More Tyrants, Oh, THAT liberal media. | 6 Comments
Here are a couple quotes from a news story. See if you can figure out where they came from. I changed one word in the first quote so as not to give the game away.
[Radio listeners] were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened in Georgia: the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a [...]
By Jimmie on Aug 15, 2008 in Alliances and Allies, No More Tyrants, Oh, THAT liberal media. | 3 Comments
Ace is on the same track I was yesterday.
Gee, I seem to remember cries that the US was deliberately assassinating journalists in Iraq when one journalist got hit at extreme range by a stray bullet (which wasn’t even necessarily fired by US troops!).
What occasioned his post is this extraordinary video. Four Turkish journalists were fired [...]
