Tskhinvali is not Sarejevo in 1914. South Ossetia will not be the start-line of the Third World War. But it is a ghastly mess, all the more depressing because the West is partly to blame. In diplomacy, strategy and geopolitics, our political leaders have been guilty of multiple failures over many years. Full Story »
Posted by Pam Rasmussen
It's easy to make grandiose arguments about how the west has had a failed post-Cold War foreign policy, but I'm not sure if it's very helpful. The piece wanders into a case for nuclear energy- again, only distantly relevant to the issue at hand. I also wonder why the issue of Chechnya isn't mentioned- a region seeking independence that Moscow has brutally crushed into subservience.
This column offers a perspective that is not being offered in most coverage of the Russia-Georgia dispute -- the mistakes of Georgia, and the role of the West in encouraging them.
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