A tricky aspect which is yet to be properly raised or debated is that this intervention has probably saved lives and stopped the country degenerating into a divisive and brutal ethnic civil war, a la The Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. If we consider the human as the referent object for security instead of the state, as the United Nations would like us to do (at least when it suits the United States to do so, eg Libya not Syria) then it could be argued that Putin is just exercising the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and thus his actions are wholly in line with United Nations policy and objectives. Consider how many Syrians have so far died in their Civil War, how many Libyans, how many Iraqis, how many Afghans, and how many 'Yugoslavians'?
A tricky aspect which is yet to be properly raised or debated is that this intervention has probably saved lives and stopped the country degenerating into a divisive and brutal ethnic civil war, a la The Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.
grzegorz wrote:I'm just glad Bush and Cheney are out of office because they would respond to Putin by invading Iran.
Steve James wrote:Palin will say that she could see this coming from Alaska.
Steve James wrote:Sorry, I got 9 seconds into it and realized that life is too short. Her first words are how "Sen. Obama" reacted to the invasion of Georgia. Of ffs, George Bush was President then. So, even though watching Hannity and Palin would be good comedy relief, I think I'll watch the latest episode of 'Banshee.'
All I can say is that if anyone should have been criticized for the invasion of Georgia, it should have been Putin. Same goes for now, and for the next President. What a concept.
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