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We're All Georgians For Now
Submitted by Sven on Fri, 2008/08/15 - 12:08pm.
Standing at a police checkpoint between Tbilisi and the city of Gori, Vakhtang Golinjashvili said that his village had been attacked by Russian troops. The checkpoint was surrounded by a throng of Georgian refugees, most of them walking toward Tbilisi with sacks of their belongings. “The only way out is the help of America,” Golinjashvili said.
Standing next to him, Iveri Nezvrishvili agreed.
"The Russians want to destroy us," he said. "The only things we can rely on are God and the Americans."
The inanity and impotence of the American government's current anti-Moscow rhetoric reverses the old Marxian truism. What began as farce now evolves into tragedy.
A North American power currently occupying two Asian nations (and with both current presidential candidates pledging escalation in Afghanistan) gives Russia pompous moral lectures and demands it reverse course and repent. We are the world's pedophile priest.
The NYT could not sum things up this well with half the Sunday edition:
And yowsa:
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