Mail Readers Offer Their Insights On Conflict In The Caucasus

True, one can find perhaps more “learned” assessments elsewhere, but The Mail today provides a reasonable summation of the Georgia-Russia conflict.

The Mail’s reporting aside, what this blog finds especially interesting are the reader comments at the bottom. Nowadays, thanks to well-known media publishing on the net and allowing commenting, conflict has been widened. All can now join in arguments that take place over thousands of miles between those supporting the opposing sides.

We also get to hear from those decrying all that’s going on. Particularly helpful are those who interject little-asked probing questions, such as:

why must we kill each other..why

Also worthwhile are insights from those who have apparently, at least for themselves, cracked living 1800-style, free of any reliance on petroleum:

Its always the same. Poor bloody people catch it in the neck all the time. If it wasn’t for the damned politicians backed by the damned military moneygrubbing over oil and gas the world could be a better place.

Indeed. For, as we know, pre-”oil and gas,” war never troubled humanity.

About all that seems clear here is that the Georgian government must have believed it could win and secure a quick victory before Russia’s far larger military came down on them. Obviously, they were wrong, and now that they are losing, as supporters of the West, and supported by the West, they (naturally) look to the West for support. Yet while diplomatic support will come, we all know that the U.S. and the West are not going to war with Russia over South Ossetia.

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Presumably, shortly we will hear how Sen Obama has distant relatives in South Ossetia. On all sides. Actually, with that, this blog just remembered: U.S. presidential convention fun is nearly upon us.

Thank goodness. It is about time. Just what the Senator and Democrats, in particular, urgently require to get their “message of change” out: more TV coverage.