Georgia Conflict

I haven’t updated in the last few days because I recently began contributing to the Democracy Project weblog writing about the Russo-Georgian conflict.
Take a look.

A War that Never Started, that Never Ended

The conventional wisdom is that Georgia kicked off the war on August 8th, launching an offensive into South Ossetia in retaliation for the violent rebuke of its unilateral cease fire from South Ossetian militias (backed by Russians) on ethnic Georgian villages near the border.
The Georgians pounded South Ossetian positions and quite nearly took the whole [...]

Entangling Alliances and Western Appeasement

It should be mentioned, although I don’t discuss it much (mostly to obscure my neolib/center-right leanings), Instapundit is probably my favorite, most-frequented blog. I agree with a shockingly large portion of Glenn Reynolds’ ideas and thoughts, particularly regarding foreign policy and civil liberties, but something he posted recently on the Georgia conflict (after graciously posting [...]

For Excellent Coverage

Check out Dateline Bucharest, which has writers based in Eastern Europe and the US with more up-to-date links to Georgia than probably most news outlets.
http://datelinebucharest.com/

The Hinge

I enjoy beach volleyball as much as anyone and, as a red blooded male, the US Women’s Beach Volleyball Team is a particular favorite of mine. However, in my twenty-something years, I’ve learned to prioritize well enough to know that the well-proportioned backsides of US volleyball players are a faraway second fiddle to the tinder [...]

On the Russo-Georgian War

As I write this, bombs are exploding in Georgia, a small Caucasian republic on the Black Sea. And from where do these bombs come? Suicide bombers? Suitcase explosives? Car bombs? Answer: none of the above.
In an age where the nature of war has changed in the public image from tank battles to exploding marketplaces, the [...]