Look, I’m all for democracy and everything, but given the state of the economy right now how wise is it, exactly, for the Bush administration to promise $1 billion in aid to Georgia, half of it in the next five months?
Notes the LRC blog:
In addition, Dick Cheney is visiting the region to stir up even […]

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Far be it from me to direct you to a right-wing web site. But, if you’re at all interested in the war between Russia and Georgia - and the apparent neoconservative interest in getting in the middle of it - then you might go read Pat Buchanan’s eminently sensible take:
Bush, Cheney and McCain have pushed to […]

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Not ours. Theirs:

Between Russia and Iran, in the lower Caucasus, sits a small wedge of independent soil — namely, the soil of Azerbaijan and Georgia combined. Through those two countries runs the immensely important Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which delivers precious oil circuitously from Azerbaijan to Turkey and out to the world. This is important not just […]

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It should hardly be surprising that the conserative punditocracy is swooning at the prospect of reviving the Cold War.
The Cold War arguably made conservatism what it is today - or at least, what it was in 2000.
While the historical narrative is far more complicated, the broad public narrative is that Ronald Reagan - and thus […]

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Via Matt Yglesias, we see John McCain having a few memory problems as he asserts that “in the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h_ZbW2REcI

Notes Matt:
We all recall, of course, John McCain’s outrage when the United States violated this rule back in 2003.
But that’s different. Because it’s us.

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In which we learn one possible reason John McCain has been so sympathetic to the Georgian cause:
John McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet […]

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