Heavy Fighting in South Ossetia

[ICantSpellDawg]

Relax. You are much too alarmist, you are mistaking diplomacy for war and your military proposals are surreal. Georgia is paying the price for the fact that the West has stupidly pried Kosovo loose from Belgrade. No need to cover up that stupidity with a new haphazard intervention and risking world peace over Mr Saakashvili's ambitions.

So your remedy is what? To do nothing? It has always been an alternative and it seems to be the one playing out now.

I'm not talking about war - I'm talking about a cessation of conflict and a brokered deal that does the inevitable (a final decision regarding Abkhazia and South Ossetia coupled with the entrance of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO) without much conflict. Do you believe that Russia would engage NATO forces? Maybe, but I doubt that they would if there was a real deal brokered.

We are talking about Russia annexing land that is not theirs with a sizable Georgian population through the use of military force. To do nothing would be the most foolish decision. I believe that they will seize Georgian land that is not in dispute as some sort of "de-militarized. Russian controlled zone". By the end of this debacle Georgia will be half the size that it is today if we take no action.