{"id":181,"date":"2008-08-11T12:46:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T16:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-08-11T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:45:55","slug":"georgia-on-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/georgia-on-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia On My Mind…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m deeply troubled by the news out of Georgia, I’m not a expert on the region and I’m not going to try and play one on the internet. What I am doing to do to point you to two excellent posts by C. Blake Powers at Blackfive.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first is titled “No, It’s Not Good At All<\/a>“, the second is “The Devil Went To Georgia<\/a>“. There’s also an excellent OpEd by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in today’s Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

The War in Georgia
\nIs a War for the West<\/strong>
\nBy Mikheil Saakashvili, August 11, 2008;\u00a0Page\u00a0A15<\/p>\n

Tbilisi, Georgia<\/p>\n

As I write, Russia is waging war on my country.<\/p>\n

On Friday, hundreds of Russian tanks crossed into Georgian territory, and Russian air force jets bombed Georgian airports, bases, ports and public markets. Many are dead, many more wounded. This invasion, which echoes Afghanistan in 1979 and the Prague Spring of 1968, threatens to undermine the stability of the international security system. Read the rest…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m deeply troubled by the news out of Georgia, I’m not a expert on the region and I’m not going to try and play one on the internet. What I am doing to do to point you to two excellent posts by C. Blake Powers at Blackfive.net. The first is titled “No, It’s Not Good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73,7,15],"tags":[76,74,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international-affairs","7":"category-politics","8":"category-security","9":"tag-caucasus","10":"tag-georgia","11":"tag-russia","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-2V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1065,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/mikheil-saakashvili-georgia-acted-in-self-defense\/","url_meta":{"origin":181,"position":0},"title":"Mikheil Saakashvili: Georgia Acted in Self-Defense","author":"Jeff","date":"December 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"There's always two sides to every story and unfortunately, for the most part the western new media has only told half story about the Russian invasion of Georgia. 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