The West must share the blame for war in Georgia

The Independent by Bruce Anderson | Aug. 12, 2008 (Opinion)

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 »

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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

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.

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