Re: South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Kosovo
Reading your posts about artificial borders and tribes, it sounds like you defend the right of the Ossetians to break away from Georgian rule, and Russia was doing the right thing to aid that.
Damn..think...this is what I have always been trying to tell you......
If America was aiding this you would simply call it warmongering. What would you say about an America that dropped Marines and soldiers in southern Turkey to aid the Kurds in their quest to unite their northern Iraqi kurds into a single new country (Kurdistan)? Think Turkey would have something to say about chooping a portion of their nation off?
Russia is making the very same mistake they and America made during the Cold War. Where Russia refuses to dismiss Cold War prescription of the past, the free world refuses to acknowledge the post Cold War of the present. They should not be playing the Ossetians against their government. They should not have been aiding fugitives of the Georgian government. Are you aware of how deep Russia has been playing around in their former bloc countries? They have been involved with civil wars. All the while, they have been more interested in extending their power base than actually helping any of them. Oh but wait....only America has ulterior evil motives.
Our roles here should be to ease the tribal transition in the Post Cold War and to work with the governments until all parties are satisfied. Some won't be satisfied. Some will cling because they feel that the borders are set in concrete despite the wishes of a large portion of their population that should have never been imprisoned behind them. Some will simply choose to slaughter those not like them. Where have we seen this? Some examples....
Bosnia
Kosovo
Serbia
Somalia
Sudan
Future tribal feuding probabilities? Some examples.....
Pakistan
Congo
Nigeria
Indonesia
Saudi Arabia
India
The ironic thing about this tribal phenomenon around the world is that we and the Soviets lifted the lids in 1989. Ending the Cold War was the goal. Nobody cared what was to come next. We were too busy celebrating our victory. Ever invade a dictator's country and fail to give attention to what was to come next? Compare it to Iraq. Like the "peace" of Iraq, our leaders simply rolled the dice. Peace after the Cold War didn't happen. People long suppressed and held down, emerged. They dove into civil wars, terrorists plots, genocides, and slaughter. The tribes began to speak out. And it's not going to end any time soon.
And if people still refuse to acknowlegde this and opt to choose to have the attitude that "genocides and terrorism have always existed".......look at the UN missions since 1989. They have more than quadrupled (I can give you an exact number tomorrow at work). The Russian and American baby sitters left the world to raise itself in 1989. And with the international community (leaders and organizations) having their heads firmly and comfortably up their asses, we have been merely reacting ever since. Why else have our military been thrown into civil wars, tribal feuds, humanitarian missions, diplomatic missions, and everything else that has nothing to do with killing an enemy? Because after two World Wars and a Cold War where victory was decisive and everything was controlled, the international community only knows of the military answer - no matter that we weren't trained for these types of missions. Our model for victory remains WWII even though we have seen Vietnams, Koreas, and Beruits. The problem became worse after 1989 where we saw Somalias, Yugoslavias, Checnyas. The military had even come up with a name for these missions during this post-Cold War period in the 90's so that we could focus on a distinct type of training.....MOOTW (Military Missions Other Than War). And since 9/11 we have even become a long extension of law enforcement as we hunt down criminals on a global scale.
Ever wonder why they call it "Post" Cold War? It's because nobody had been able to come up with a suitable name for the period between 11/9 (November 1989) and 9/11. World War II was known as the WWII era. Then came the Cold War. What came after? "Post"-Cold War? Did this period not rate a name for itself? or did we simply not know how to label this period where part of the world began to crumble before us? It was a period of breakdown. Borders no longer contained the violence within borders, because those borders were unnatural and bad to begin with. Terrorist organizations, disease, and genocide have gone international. They all stem from these unnatural tribal backward nations.
The answer is not the Cold War prescription where we maintained and even created dictators. The answer is not to cling to outdated governments or to governments too eager to keep their frankenstien's monster or a country intact. And the answer is not to wage war with host nations to defend tribes that want to secede. How many times have I stated that we have to start listening to the people and stop catering to the dictators or backward regimes that don't represent them? How many times have I stated that we have to get in tight with the tribes under the decent governments, which are merely trying to hold their nation together? We have to redefine the word "soveriegnty," which was defined by the same kings, czars, and kaisers who slashed crayons across maps two centuries ago.
What the hell kind of world do we live in where people like Saddam and Mugabe have the same "soveriegnty" as the people of France, America, or Switzerland? What the hell kind of world do we live in where fairly new borders on a map are supposed to forever keep tribes seperated or forever keep feuding tribes destryoying each other under the term "soveriegnty?" We are as stupid as those who created this problem in the first place.
Nobody sees this. We just want to keep rolling the dice and tripping our way through this. How many lives will perish and how much treasure will it cost to make this world right only after the smoking volcanoes erupt?
