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U.S. Watched as a Squabble Turned Into a Showdown
nytimes.com - 8/18/2008
U.S. Watched as a Squabble Turned Into a Showdown
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The U.S. seemed to have missed — or gambled it could manage — the depth of Russia’s anger and the resolve of Georgia’s leader to provoke the Russians. >

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War and Piece — Worth reading , from the NYT , how the US missed the warning signs on Russian-Georgian squabble. "The story of how a 16-year, low-grade conflict over who should rule two small, mountainous regions in the Caucasus erupted into the most serious post-cold-war showdown between the United States and Russia is one of miscalculation, missed signals and overreaching, according to interviews with diplomats and senior officials in the United States, the European Union, Russia and Georgia. ... It is also the story of how both Democrats and Republicans have misread Russia’s determination ...

Evan Bayh Shows How to Define McCain
Firedoglake — ... But if the Republicans thought they had an easy winner having bomb-bomb-Iran McCain rhetorically outblustering George Bush on the Georgian catastrophe, after he and his Georgian lobbyist adviser intervened to encourage Georgia's delusions, they got a surprise yesterday from an unexpected source. Appearing on ...

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