Wether Bush is in Bejing or in Texas really does not change a thing, does it?
The big question in my book is why did Saakaschwili send troops in the first place, and why right now, as the timing is always key factor in military stratgey. Did he just get his game plan wrong or was this deliberate? The Seperatists and the Enegry question are the obvious things to observe at a glance, but is there more?
Abchasia is what? Russia supports it, the international community did not, so far. Southossetia was also on Saakaschwili's feck list.
One wonders what was really going on behind closed doors.
Sometimes it helps to look at the accounts of the past few years alone and here it is clearly the case that Georgia more than trippled military expenditure since 2003. 24 Million USD in 2003 and 76 in 2006. A quick closer look and it is clear that the USA send massive military support to Georgia since 2001, military equipment and education valued at 80 million USD went to Georgia in 2006 alone, let aside attack helicopters that were send for free!
The US are the biggest military exporter into Georgia, 1/5 of the entire US military help budget went to Georgia alone, Israel and Turkey as well join the list, and it goes on an on, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Rumania, Macedonia, Litauen and even Egypt joined the club.
Saakaschwili is in power since Januaery 2004 and was elected with 96% of votes, yeah right. In November 2007 people went on the street protesting against Saakaschwili demanding his resignation. He was re elected with somewhat 56% and it is his last election period he serves.
He was educated in George Washington University in Washington D.C. and worked as a solicitor in Manhattan at the same time.
Oh yeah, he got medals too, not olympic Gold, but from the American Bar Association, for his achievements to support Law and Order. <grin>
Saakaschwili is one more puppet on the international stage of crisis regions with oil pipelines, strings attached and pulled from others far away, serving their own agendas.
....Nothing new under the sun....