Kosovo just declared independence from Serbia, an old Russian ally.It’s tit for tat time, with Kosovo as the tit and South Ossetia as thetat.
There are three basic facts to keep in mind about the smokin’ little war in Ossetia:
1. The Georgians started it.
2. They lost.
3. What a beautiful little war!
For me, the most important is #3, the sheer beauty of the videoclips that have already come out of this war. I’m in heaven right now.
Of course, if you want to get all serious and actually study up onOssetia, North and South, and Georgia and the whole eternal gang warthat they call the Caucasus, you can check out a column I did on that school-hostage splatter in Beslan, North Ossetia, a few years back.
Most likely the Georgians just thought the Russians wouldn’t react.They were doing something they learned from Bush and Cheney: stickingto best-case scenarios, positive thinking. The Georgian plan wasclassic shock’n’awe with no hard, grown-up thinking about the longterm. Their shiny new army would go in, zap the South Ossetians whilethey were on a peace hangover (the worst kind), and then…uh, they’d bewelcomed as liberators? Sure, just like we were in Iraq.
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