[kj] (OT)Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?

[fluke fluke]

It was just an offer from a Student organisation, it shouldn't have been taken seriously and it shouldn't be discussed or published on here .
  Why should a few New Zealand teenagers opinion matter , on a World scale ?
 

> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:38:48 +1200> From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz> To: gathering at misera.net> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT)Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?> > Condi Rice was in NZ recently, from what I remember a student organisation> offered a reward to anyone who could arrest her as a war crim. Made me> laugh. Cops did a bunch of frowning in the press etc, telling everyone it> was a seriously bad idea to even try, which I imagine would be an> understatement. Still...good on 'em.> > > And here is yet another one, a piece in the Washington Post written in> > response to John McCain's preposterous statement that "We are all> > Georgians."> >> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401360.html> >> > Some people consider the Washington Post to have a liberal bias.> >> > SO: That is one 1) article from an avowed conservative that says, wait a> > minute, the Georgians are the ones that fucked up; one 2) from Gary> > Brecher, author of _The War Nerd_, who claims he is a classical American> > conservative (not a Bush-style neo-con); and 3) a liberal paper. Three> > different ideological backgrounds, all claiming rightly that Georgia> > instigated this conflict, and really fucked up in invading Ossetia, half> > of which is attached like a set of testicles beneath Russian and into> > Georgia's borders, and the upper half of which is in Russia, but all of> > whom consider themselves to be ethnic Russians, not Georgians.> >> > States generally have a mandate to protect their citizens and peoples> > when they are attacked. Indeed, that is a large part of the> > justification for the existence of nation-states to begin with. The> > hysterical Western/American reaction is absurd -- as if the old Cold War> > USSR has landed the Red Army in Pennsylvania circa 1965 or something.> > What the hel. In the meantime, Condi Rice signed a deal to put US> > missiles in Poland, Russia's border. Imagine if Russia did that with> > Canada. But they didn't; they went into a part o Ossetia and staunched a> > Georgian assault on ethnic Russians.> >> > -Oliver> >> > _______________________________________________> > Gathering mailing list> > Gathering at misera.net> > http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering> >> > > _______________________________________________> Gathering mailing list> Gathering at misera.net> http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

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