2×4: Yeah, and? By same token I could ask you,when U.S. criminally backed Albanian Islamist in Balkans did it ask non-Albanian population whether they want independence from Serbia? Who cared??? I did not see the majority of Westerners protesting. Remained silent and obediant. Well Russia bear just announced it’s pay back time.

Preserving the territorial integrity of Georgia will not be possible without preserving the territorial integrity of Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija province.

It is unacceptable to recognize the unilateral independence of Kosovo province from Serbia and, at the same time, keep repeating the territorial integrity of Georgia must be respected when it comes to South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

If we all respect the territorial integrity of Serbia in regards to its Kosovo province, then we are also going to honor the territorial integrity of Georgia. But if someone doesn’t respect Serbia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over Kosovo and Metohija, then they better shut up about the territorial integrity of Georgia

What NATO did in Yugoslavia — slaughter of civilians, destruction of the bridges on Danube, razing the Belgrade television and the rest, takes away their right to criticize Russia for any present or future actions, as far as I am concerned. Case CLOSED!

Moving along, then. One has to be either stupid or harbor malicious intent to call the Russian action “aggressive” when it was clearly a response to the Georgian attack on South Ossetia. Russia is a guarantor of the truce that froze the conflict in the early 1990s when Ossetia and Abkhazia seceded from Tbilisi; as such, it certainly had the right and one might even argue duty to intervene when the truce was violated by, say, the Georgian army invading Ossetia wholesale.

Of course, Tbilisi claims that Ossetians attacked first. Just like Poland. Why would the Ossetians provoke the war? They had de facto independence, Russian citizenship, and could wait the Georgians out pretty much indefinitely. One could argue that it would be in Russia’s long-term interest to remove an American client regime from Tbilisi, but why now? And remember, it is Washington, and not Moscow, that’s been going around the world installing puppet governments.

Even if McCain, Bush, Rice and all the West were right on any of his points – and he is not – U.S.was a participant in the dismemberment of Yugoslavia, the Bosnian protectorate, and the occupation of Kosovo. That means U.S. government got no credibility to talk about principles or international law, or peace, or stability. None.

But his sort of “analysis” is the one you’ll find common in the West: Evil Russia manipulates, provokes, attacks, threatens. Yeah, right.