buddy,

It is utterly amazing to read the apologetics across the web discussions about the invasion of Georgia. The permutations of those apologetics do indeed seem to stick to the basic themes you pointed out.

That is how successful the decades of dizinformatzia in the West has been. Actually, it is stunning.

I feel badly for the Georgians. They took a risk in becoming allies of ours. They sent troops to Iraq and they believed in us. That a cost/benefit analysis will fall against them and seal their fate sets a very dangerous precedent. After all, who really is going to trust us to stand by them when they are in the shit?

Putin planned this masterfully. He picked a vulnerable target. He had his agents of propaganda in place. He had seeded Ossetia with the right kind of provocateurs. He waited for the right moment, and he picked a time when our nation is least able to respond appropriately to the crisis. And there is a chance that, if Obama is elected, he will get the best prize of all: the ax falling on the missile defense system. He figured that Bush is pretty much not able to be aggressive, and I think the constant bluffing against Iran’s nuke sites finally convinced the Russians that we were not going to do anything about it. Because politically we couldn’t.

Yes, it was a gamble, but a calculated one. And unless a miracle happens, the sheer brute force of it all seals Georgia’s fate.