ThreatsWatch.Org – US Ambassador Calls Russian Response ‘Legitimate’

This is simply difficult to fathom and is an embarrassment to the State Department’s foreign service and diplomatic corps. Or rather, it should be. To many, perhaps it is not.

While nuance is overrated, there is a distinct difference between diplomatic nuance and event revisionism.

For starters, here’s hoping the US Department of Treasury is monitoring the bank accounts of South Ossetia’s ‘president’ Eduard Kokoity for any recent or near-future – shall we say – “transaction anomalies. ”
It takes a lot of money to start a war. To my knowledge, South Ossetia’s entire provincial economy is somewhere south of that of Ford County, Illinois. And regional strongmen never skim for their own pockets. Never.

Just a hunch.
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Check the accounts please, Treasury. Inquiring minds want to know.

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Meanwhile, at CNN
Below is original story quoting the ambassador.
Current (longer) CNN article leaves him out!

Here is a screenshot of Google search with partial quote cited:
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“The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Beyrle, told the Russian business daily Kommersant it had urged Georgia not to launch an attack and that Russia responded in a “legitimate” way, though he went on to say Russia went too far in its military incursion.

His comments represent a public acknowledgment from a senior U.S. official that Russia had some justification for its initial response to Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia.“
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John Bolton shakes his head in dismay.