My point was that Georgia is by and large a Christian nation, in textbooks if not in practice. I know plenty about the Gorge of Hell, and I needn’t review it.

A few other reflections.

War is inherently evil. There are NO good-sides in a war. there is not one ounce of righteousness to be found in a war zone. There are however, many individual soldiers, who have been impelled over the event horizon into war, that are indeed good guys. Sadly, they are also the humans most likely to die in a combat theater. It hardly ever seems to be the deserving assholes that get their number checked. They are the ones who cower in fear under deep cover 2 meters away from a bud bleeding out in a strange foreign land. It is the same for yours and the enemy. The peasants have it even worse, as they are often forced to choose between giving up the entirety of their personal possessions, or being in the crossfire of a firefight.

It was wrong to have bombed Serbia, but not because the Milosevic government was any better the the powers behind Muslim separatists. It was wrong because the Serbian people were about to take Milosevic down on their own, and by going to war, we only solidified his position. Milosevic cracked down on dissidents at the start of the war, and the Serbian people understandably rallied bejhind their nation at the war’s onset.

There is NO right-side in the current conflict between Georgia and Russia either. Saakashvili is no more righteous than was Shevardnadze. The latter was a tool of the Kremlin, and the former was sceptered into power with western subterfuge and funding. Saakashvili miscalculated, albeit probably goaded into action by Russian backed rebels in S. Ossetia. He thought he could catch Russia sleeping, and would be able to waltz into Tskhinvali, overrun the Russian garrison there, before they could respond. He was counting on Western support after the fact. Russia seems to have been lying in wait ready, was able to get airborne in place, and held until the Armor arrived through the S, Caucasus mountain gorges. It arrived in force and unscathed. and has now pressed into the Georgian lowlands with heavy guns and total air superiority.

I don’t believe Russia has any intentions of trying to hold Georgia. They are instead publicly flogging Georgia in a show beating, intending to make Saakashvili unelectable regardless of the covert funding from the west. They are also making sure that The Ukraine is learning the lesson too.

All the while, the Real Assholes, who deserve to die in this conflict, are sitting nice and warm in their respective capitals hurling derogations at each other.

Trent: “Georgian Christians”? Fire-up Google Earth, and look for The Pankisi Gorge, then do a bit of searching using that as the string. Also, you might want to refresh your memory about Beslan. There is no justice to be found in The eyes of your children for the eyes of our husbands, which your government poke-out. It is just hell upon earth.

Finally, why has no one mentioned thew war zombie McCain beating his chest like a war drum. What’s he going to do; start going on recruiting drives into the fecund, yntapped resources for Grade A Prime Monkey Boy Military fodder that is the College Republican campus enclaves, in an effort to shore up our already over-extended military, nearing its breaking point?

There, I am through with my ravening.

I am antiwar.
If That Makes Me A Lefty;
So Be It.

I’ve been to war, and it’s only needless death, and the black of night that is ever always descending.

Clearly you have not followed up on the links I provided.

If you had, you would know how erroneous that statement is. Also, you would have some idea of what kind of monstrosity you advocate when you say the Serbs “deserved everything they got and more.”

Let us not compare ethics. While my “leave them alone” ethic might seem very “do nothing”–your ethic was to carpet bomb the Serbs. Serbs who did not neccesarily agree with their government actions. You want to shed blood for blood. My Christian principles tell me that I should send help to my brethren, but not that I should send my brethren to help my brethren. In the system myself and GE have outlined, any American has the ability to help Georgia, Russia, or South Ossetia.

Georgia is capable of defending herself. Russia has about 100,000 soldiers in the region that they’d be able to deploy to Georgia. Georgia has about 33,000 total. South Ossetia has less than 1000 in a militia. However, Georgian volunteers from Armenia, Russia, and Azerbaijan would pour in in the event of an actual occupation–this has already happened on a small scale. Furthermore, mercenaries have already been found in Georgia. The reported story is that they were most likely hired by weathy Georgian-Americans and Georgian-Argentinians, this would happen on a larger scale in the event of occupation or genocide.

Socialism is exposed as pro-war.

“Deran exposes the bloodthirsty savagery that lies at the heart of every socialist.”

The savages were the Serbs. I would have prefered the UN was the leader militarily, but when no one else stepped up, someone had to do something. I agree the use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium munitions was a crime, but, again, someone, other than libertarian capitalists obviously, had to do something.

Not that it matters–I was right anyway.

Yeah, that’s humanitarianism at its finest.

Nice of you to consign an entire nation to the fire for the policies of its government.