Check out their latest headline – Russia peacekeepers to stay in breakaway provinces. [Not even scare quotes?-ed. Not even.] (ht: Mike Reynolds)
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Perhaps they meant “Russian Piece-keepers.”
This is a rhetorical question, right?
The same “peacekeeping” that Catherine the Great undertook in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania.
Those soldiers are only there to protect the locals. From things like the ravages of democracy. And free speech.
Peace-keeping today, annexation tomorrow.
I’d like to think that this would cause liberals to see the distinction between what they call US imperialism and what real imperialism looks like. (But it won’t, of course.)
Scott
That’s not the headline of the article you link to. The headline is ‘ Georgia says Russia bombed after order to halt war’
“That’s not the headline of the article you link to. The headline is ‘Georgia says Russia bombed after order to halt war’”
Yahoo may have changed the headline, or rotated the hyperlink to an update of the story. As of the time of this comment, Google News still has the headline that Roger refers to in his above post.
Yakety yak yak yak. It’s Russia’s backyard. All the caterwhauling in the world won’t change that. They’re boss in their backyard.
ricpic:
Are we the boss of our backyard? if so, what countries constitute our backyard?
The cold hard truth is that the West will wag it’s finger, call Putin and company bad names, hold meetings and seminars and in the end Russia will control Georgia and the West will do nothing. Ukraine will get the message next and will realize that it will have to take orders from the new look Czar and will act as Moscow wishes to avoid invasion. Two years from now the new order in that area will accepted as the status qou and the current outrage that the West is mouthing will be replaced with yawns and indifference. Sad, but true.
“All the caterwhauling in the world won’t change that. They’re boss in their backyard.”
Hey, let’s invade Mexico and take their oil. Canada, too. They’ve only got like what, about fifty guys in their army, right? Are they going to put up much of a fight?
The Democrats say we can’t drill our way out of the energy problem–so let’s attack our way out!
It’s our back yard, so we’re the boss, right?
Scott
No LSD, we’re not the boss of our backyard. We’re too sensitive for any such sanity.
Sadly, you can find similar headlines from AP on almost a daily basis.
Just last week, for instance:
“Obama links energy troubles to unpopular Cheney” (August 5, 2008)
Who can forget this bit of wishful thinking?:
“Bush resigns because of plagiarism” (March 3, 2008)
And of course – it can’t be brought up enough as far I’m concerned – the AP once described (in a 2002 photo caption) Osama bin Laden as a “Saudi dissident.”
Al-Reuters is often worse, and don’t get me started on AFP — I wonder how the “youths” of the Parisian suburbs are faring these days? My fear is that rising gas prices may have put a crimp in their car-torching activities, although I’m certain that some future “unrest” remains a likely possibility.
are you talking about russian fascists or georgian fascists? there’s very little difference between two…
Poul,
We are familiar with your game. It gets old to mindlessly equate victims and victimizers.
Go back and look at the map again and then tell us which country invaded which other country.
(AP) AKA (Adoring Putin) or (A$$-kissing Putin). Take your pick.
are you talking about russian fascists or georgian fascists? there’s very little difference between two…
There must be a difference, since the Russian fascists have managed to talk you into that moral equivalence crappola, while you pay no heed to Georgia. And I suppose Benan Sevan was just a diplomat doing his job.
Poul is writing the same exact post over at Belmont. Never get in the way of a man with an Idea!
wasn’t another part of Benan Sevan’s job the tossing of his mom –or aunt –down an elevator shaft to keep her mum (groan) on his UN money-laundering?
wasn’t another part of Benan Sevan’s job the tossing of his mom –or aunt –down an elevator shaft to keep her mum (groan) on his UN money-laundering?
Didn’t he refer to that as taking out the laundry? I’m sure Putin could use a few good men like Sevan (and probably has).
yuk yuk
LSD:
Perhaps they meant “Russian Piece-keepers.”
that’s goood –
I believe Poul was referencing Georgia’s retaking of South Ossetia with rockets, aircraft and artillery. I know it is part of Georgia but there is a smart way to do a thing and a bloody stupid way. I believe Georgia choose the latter. I hope Poul’s meaning is you don’t shell your own citizens unless you have no other choice and Georgia I believe had a lot of other, less violent options. But if you feel so strongly about Russia’s aggression against Georgia do what I have done and call their embassy and express your anger in a non-violent way of course. I find the military attache to be the most fun. His # 202 965 1181.
I hope the truce holds, but I am not holding my breath. If you look at a map of Georgia it has inland seas to the east and west and Russia to the north. Nowhere to go, no easy way in.
Edward: Calling the Russian embassy and expressing your displeasure is a lovely idea but there is one problem with that thought. Russia does not care what you, the E.U., the U.N, or any group or individual thinks. They would prefer that you gave them a thumbs up but it will not change their actions one bit. The government of Sudan has been called every name in the book by the West and every international group in the world yet they keep on killing as long as China supports them. Evil people or Governments don’t change their actions over bad polling results.
Mr. Simon, the MSM is quite willing to pull for Czar Putin and his Coalition of Independent Socialist States…. Wait, wasn’t that the old one? Pay no heed to the man behind the curtain, the MSM’s more active radical wing has been cheering on the Reds since the 1930s. After all, the real evil-doers in the world is the Great Satan, United States of Amerikkka, which insists on fomenting freedom of speech, freedom from want, freedom from fear, and freedom of worship all around the globe. (Hat tip to the late Norman Rockwell on Why We Really Fight.)
Besides, the MSM has spent about 7 years carrying water for the anti-war crowd that war is NEVER the answer to anything, and we should all just withdraw to Okinawa and let dictators and armed mobs do whatever they want in Asia and Africa. At least as long as the armed mobs reiterate the proper slogans in front of the TV cameras. Now Putin, having tested the PR winds, commits a naked act of armed aggression against a neighboring independent and relatively inoffensive State. The MSM has nothing to really say against him at this point, because he’s made them look like fools. However, don’t expect them to learn their lesson anytime soon.
south ossetia is as much part of georgia as georgia is part of russia – so if one has a right for independence, so is another.
I support self-determination whenever possible for every podunk little country that wants it. That is the principle of tolerance. Georgians want to separate from Russia. South Ossetians want to separate from Georgians. Both have an equal right to do so, IF THAT IS WHAT THEY WISH. Same goes for Kosovo, by the way.