Posted on 08/12/2008 3:46:03 PM PDT by omega4179
Appalling.
If Russia can defend its citizens, why cant Georgia defend its citizens?... This battle isn’t over yet
Remember what we are being told a hundred times a day.
This would not be happening if only the free people of the West had gone along with it in Kosovo.
But, we are.
Because, alas, they don't have enough guns, big enough guns, or enough men to carry the guns they do have.
Oh, you were asking a rhetorical question...
We are what skeeter? Think about it now, think.
Despite the televised order by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia launched an offensive Tuesday in the Kodori Gorge, the only part of the breakaway region of Abkhazia still under Georgian control, sending in tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery.
And hours before the order, Russian jets bombed the crossroads city of Gori, near the separatist region of South Ossetia. Gori’s post office and university were burning Tuesday, but the city was all but deserted after most remaining residents and Georgian soldiers fled Monday ahead of a feared Russian onslaught.
In Moscow, Medvedev said Georgia had been punished enough for its attack on South Ossetia. Georgia launched an offensive late Thursday to regain control over the separatist province, which has close ties to Russia.
Many Georgians also have been killed in the fighting and on Tuesday, the Georgian security council said it filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice for alleged ethnic cleansing. The overall death toll was expected to rise because large areas of Georgia were still too dangerous for journalists to enter and see the true scope of the damage.
“It feels like an annexed country,” said Lasha Margiana, the local administrator in one of the villages in the Kodori Gorge, where fleeing Georgians said the entire population had abandoned their homes.
In villages around the South Ossetian provincial capital, separatist fighters reportedly were setting fire to Georgian houses and searching for hidden Georgian fighters.
An AP photographer in the village of Ruisi near South Ossetia saw fresh damage from a Russian air raid that locals said came just 30 minutes before Medvedev’s televised statement.
Residents said three villagers were killed and another five wounded when a Russian warplane raided the village. One slain victim, 77-year old Amiran Vardzelashvili, was struck by a fragment in the heart while was working in a field.
The Georgian government said another nearby village, Sakorinto, also was bombed after Medvedev announcing a halt to fighting, as was an ambulance in the Black Sea province of Adzharia.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008107643_webgeorgia12.html
If we had only allowed ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, (alleged) ethnic cleansing would not be occurring in South Ossetia?
Why, we are going along with ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
Russians could give a rip about “ethnic cleansing”, in Kosovo or in S Osatia. That was the west’s particular bogeyman.
Over 200 million dead dumbass Russians last century and they still haven’t learned their lesson!
Ah. That explains why the majority of Kosovo's Serbs still live in the Albanian dominated South rather than the Serbian enclave in the North.
Not.
Yeah...just swallow the Sashkavili propaganda without any evidence whatsoever.
And its selectively applied - Serbs are down to less than 7% of the population in Kosovo.
I know its another topic altogether but its still irritating to see what NATO did there being justified by use of the term.
All <100k (and dropping)of 'em.
“Russians could give a rip about “ethnic cleansing”, in Kosovo or in S Osatia. That was the west’s particular bogeyman.”
For both the Russians and Georgians what the West calls “ethnic cleansing” they call “business as usual”. A small mafia that pissed off a big mafia, that’s all this while situation is. And as such, we should keep out of it.
Who is he?
Minister 2003 – 2004
Open Society Georgia Foundation (Soros Foundation)
Tbilisi, Georgia
If you’re unwilling to accept your opinion is based upon erroneous information, why should anybody care about your opinion?
The big secret is that Kosovo is overwhelmingly inhabited by people neither Serb nor Christian and it has been that way for centuries. One needed to be deaf dumb and blind to fail to notice that under Miloschevic the non Serb population was being systematically driven from the province by state terror. Could anyone living through the time of Miloshivic actually have missed this? The re writing of that history by a vocal contingent here on FR has been very effective. After all Clinton was directing foreign policy at the time. I despise that guy as much as anyone. AND the victim population was Muslim, not my favorites either. But facts is facts, and I pray the Russians are not doing to the Georgians what their little brothers tried to accomplish in Bosnia, Kraijina and Kosovo over a decade ago.
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