Comments on: Calm Perspective On The Georgia – Russia Conflict http://libertymaven.com/2008/08/15/calm-perspective-on-the-georgia-russia-conflict/1494/ For Liberty, One Individual At A Time Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:18:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: lonewolf http://libertymaven.com/2008/08/15/calm-perspective-on-the-georgia-russia-conflict/1494/comment-page-1/#comment-973 lonewolf Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:36:07 +0000 http://www.libertymaven.com/?p=1494#comment-973 I don't understand 1,000 Israeli's being advisers to the Georgian forces. I guess they are considered embedded. Why is Israel involved in a war or conflict like this. They seem to have their hand in a lot of things around the world that would seem to a worldly person to be none of their affair. I don’t understand 1,000 Israeli’s being advisers to the Georgian forces. I guess they are considered embedded. Why is Israel involved in a war or conflict like this. They seem to have their hand in a lot of things around the world that would seem to a worldly person to be none of their affair.

]]> By: Marc Gallagher http://libertymaven.com/2008/08/15/calm-perspective-on-the-georgia-russia-conflict/1494/comment-page-1/#comment-970 Marc Gallagher Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:28:03 +0000 http://www.libertymaven.com/?p=1494#comment-970 anatole4dd, I'm no "apologist" for Georgia nor Russia in this awful situation. As I stated, both sides are to blame. Russia is certainly not innocent and neither is Georgia. Both are being hypocritical as is the United States. As is usually the case the people are victims of their own government's actions. They are the only innocents involved. It seems that you are a Russian apologist, perhaps you have a first hand account of the Georgian murders you claim? Your rather sensationalist comment only further illustrates my point in the commentary. It also reinforces the reasoning behind America's historical non-interventionist stance on foreign policy. We've gone from playing no part, to playing unwilling interventionist, to being vigorous yet selective policemen of the world. I hate to think of the phase on this path to empire. Or perhaps America is already there? Thank you for your comment, Marc anatole4dd,

I’m no “apologist” for Georgia nor Russia in this awful situation. As I stated, both sides are to blame. Russia is certainly not innocent and neither is Georgia. Both are being hypocritical as is the United States. As is usually the case the people are victims of their own government’s actions. They are the only innocents involved.

It seems that you are a Russian apologist, perhaps you have a first hand account of the Georgian murders you claim? Your rather sensationalist comment only further illustrates my point in the commentary.

It also reinforces the reasoning behind America’s historical non-interventionist stance on foreign policy. We’ve gone from playing no part, to playing unwilling interventionist, to being vigorous yet selective policemen of the world. I hate to think of the phase on this path to empire. Or perhaps America is already there?

Thank you for your comment,
Marc

]]> By: anatole4dd http://libertymaven.com/2008/08/15/calm-perspective-on-the-georgia-russia-conflict/1494/comment-page-1/#comment-969 anatole4dd Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:17:52 +0000 http://www.libertymaven.com/?p=1494#comment-969 "Georgia attacked South Ossetia for their goal of Independence," is a paltrey, cowardly and sickeningly dishonest way of describing Georgia's war crimes against the civilian population of South Ossetia. Georgia did not just "attack," it bombarded, with massive fire power (supplied by the United States), an innocent civilian population, while they slept (at 1:00 a.m.), without warning and without provocation, targeting schools, hospitals, and private homes, killing thousands of men, women, and children indiscriminately. Whether Georgia did so "for the South Ossetians' goal of independence" is not likely--the only evident purpose of the bombardment was to murder, not to reintegrate. In any case, Georgia never said why it did so, nor why it persisted over the next several days, with tanks and sniper fire and grenade attacks, in the massacre of the helpless civilians of South Ossetia. That said, the wonder is how so many gutless apologists for such horrors, like yourself, find it all so easy to explain--Where do you all come from? Do you live under rocks, in pits and holes and come swarming out at the smell of innocent blood and the cries of butchered children to say it couldn't be helped? You are worse than the monsters you apologize for. “Georgia attacked South Ossetia for their goal of Independence,” is a paltrey, cowardly and sickeningly dishonest way of describing Georgia’s war crimes against the civilian population of South Ossetia. Georgia did not just “attack,” it bombarded, with massive fire power (supplied by the United States), an innocent civilian population, while they slept (at 1:00 a.m.), without warning and without provocation, targeting schools, hospitals, and private homes, killing thousands of men, women, and children indiscriminately. Whether Georgia did so “for the South Ossetians’ goal of independence” is not likely–the only evident purpose of the bombardment was to murder, not to reintegrate. In any case, Georgia never said why it did so, nor why it persisted over the next several days, with tanks and sniper fire and grenade attacks, in the massacre of the helpless civilians of South Ossetia. That said, the wonder is how so many gutless apologists for such horrors, like yourself, find it all so easy to explain–Where do you all come from? Do you live under rocks, in pits and holes and come swarming out at the smell of innocent blood and the cries of butchered children to say it couldn’t be helped? You are worse than the monsters you apologize for.

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