After agreeing to a ceasefire brokered by the French, the Russians kept going to Gori and turned left.
GORI, Georgia -- Just hours after Russia agreed to a French-brokered cease-fire, Russian troops followed by irregular Ossetian militias pushed deep into Georgia, seizing the strategic city of Gori and deploying armored vehicles on the nation's main highway that leads to capital city of Tbilisi.Looks like they might make something of their invasion after all. Where is Obama's international institution of choice, the UN?
The UN Security Council put off until Saturday efforts to agree on a call for an immediate ceasefire in the worsening conflict in Georgia's breakaway enclave of South Ossetia, its president said Friday.Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya...
"Some members need more time," Belgium's UN envoy Jan Grauls, who chairs the council this month, told reporters. "Negotiations will be resumed tomorrow."
Meanwhile, Obama has plans to prepare us to meet threats just like these.
And the results we can expect from an Obama administration that features defense cuts and negotiations?
Great post, worthy of a double link today.
ReplyDeletedo you honestly think defense spending would prevent this travesty? Methinks that perhaps if we had not committed to two theaters of operation we would have more in the way of a "stick" to motivate the soviet war machine without any need to actually commit anything more than a symbolic peace-keeper force. As it stands, our symbolic stick is more of a twig thanks to mentalities just such as yours. Had we committed only to afganistan, we would be in a far stronger position to muscle tyrants like Putin without needing to ever actually commit forces
ReplyDeleteanon, imagine even considering mounting an operation without a friendly regime in Iraq. Kind of hard.
ReplyDeleteAs for a military invasion, nope, not gonna be one. There wasn't going to be one anyway. But there are military actions and there are military actions. In this case, we're right nearby with all kinds of helpful advisors, equipment and trainers for the Georgians....
Imagine how things would be going had we followed Obama's suggestions and surrendered in Iraq.