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Thu 27 Apr, 2006 08:53 am
I think it is time for Bush administration to pay more attention to aggressive statements of present Georgian leader, President Saakashvili who publicly calls upon his citizens to restore territorial integrity of Georgia by means of military force. There is no secret that our government has supported Saakashvili's strivings for establishing real democracy and freedom in this poor ex-Soviet republic. We have spared no expense for strengthening weak Georgian economy and buttressing their armed forces, because that is two main and necessary conditions of independent state's existence. But now we can not allow Georgians to use US assistance for initiating military actions against their autonomies, because it may end in bloody war all over the Caucasus. Taking into account difficult situation of US troops in Iraq and intensification of tension in our current relations with Iran, it is clear a new warfare in neighboring Caucasian region will be out of turn for America.
Civil war in Georgia in the 1990s did not lead to a general war in the Caucasus--so i wonder why you are now trying to suggest that this will happen. Additionally, war in the Caucasus would be a proximate interest of Iran and Russia, not the United States. It's not our business, and i don't think that it would draw in the United States, even if it happended, which i doubt.
Oh, c'mon! It's been too long! Let's invade sumpin'!
Yeah, but if we invade 'em, we can't nuke 'em first . . . and we ain't nuked nobody in more'n sixty years . . .