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Ne’er So Well-Express’d

14 Responses to “Ne’er So Well-Express’d”

1. Comment by kid bitzer —
   August 14, 2008 @ 9:14 am

   have to disagree with you.

   “International Relations Jesus will spurred into action by their eloquence and power”

   in that clause, there is clearly a word missing: “be”.
   it should have read “…Jesus will be spurred…”

   also, a graf later,
   “because if your wrong about those noble thing you’re just wrong!”

   the first “your” should be “you’re”.

   other than that: agreed, that’s a brilliant piece. andrew at his best is awesomely good.

2. Comment by cleek —
   August 14, 2008 @ 9:29 am

   “Now, other things way yet happen, and other facts may yet come out…”

3. Comment by kid bitzer —
   August 14, 2008 @ 10:33 am

   yeah, i’m sorry, jim–the cumulation of errors that cleek and i are finding really calls into question your political and ideological judgment.

   next we’ll find out that you’re a splittist about infinitives.

4. Comment by Jim Henley —
   August 14, 2008 @ 10:38 am

   To blithely assert such on the basis of no evidence is just inconceivable.

5. Comment by matthew hogan —
   August 14, 2008 @ 1:28 pm

   “inconceivable” — You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.

6. Comment by kid bitzer —
   August 14, 2008 @ 1:35 pm

   yaaah! splitter!
   fucking judaean people’s popular front!
   we hate them worse than the romans!
   (or is that the people’s front for popular judaea?)

7. Comment by Asteele —
   August 14, 2008 @ 2:41 pm

   Oh I don’t know. There seems to me to be a bit of “just-world” thinking with a lot of the, Georgia had it coming talk. I think it’s likely that Georiga saw(correctly) an attempt at annexation by Russia of it’s two provinces was inevitable, and took what it thought was the best chance it had to prevent that. Those Russian forces that Annexed the two provinces in 2 days didn’t materalise out of nowhere.

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   August 14, 2008 @ 3:28 pm

   U.S. Insists It Still Strongly Backs Georgia Leaders…

   The Bush administration may have ceded mediation duties between Russia and Georgia to Europe but is …

9. Comment by Nell —
   August 14, 2008 @ 8:30 pm

   an attempt at annexation by Russia of it’s two provinces was inevitable, and took what it thought was the best chance it had to prevent that.

   The provinces are not “its” (or it’s); they’ve been functionally self-ruled since the horrendous civil war, and big majorities have voted to be part of Russia.

   Or: tell it to the fans of an independent Kosovo; strangely, there didn’t seem to be the same massive concern for Serbia’s ownership of the province.

10. Comment by lemuel pitkin —
    August 15, 2008 @ 7:50 pm

    Some chronology: South Ossetia was part of Georgia from 1918-1921, and from 1991. Note that in 1990 — a year before Georgia left the USSR, South Ossetia voted to secede from Georgia. For the entire 1918-1921 period, the Ossetians were in open revolt against Georgia. And of course since 1995, South Ossetia has been de facto part of Russia. So the notion that South Ossetia was part of Georgia, was more a wish than a fact.

    Look at it this way. Russia is to Georgia and South Ossetia as the UK is to Argentina and the Falklands, or the US is to Iraq and Kuwait, or Turkey is to Greece and Cyprus, or India is to Pakistan and Kashmir, or…

    In every case, a country decides to assert what they regard (often reasonably) as a legitimate territorial claim by force, and end up bloodied by the disputed real estate’s larger “protector” (who often, as in this case, is supported by the local population.) Russia behaved here exactly the way the US or any other great power would. The real mystery is why the Georgias, Argentinas, Iraqs, etc. expect anything else…

11. Comment by lemuel pitkin —
    August 15, 2008 @ 7:51 pm

    Or: What Nell said.

12. Comment by joe —
    August 16, 2008 @ 2:16 pm

    The real mystery is why the Georgias, Argentinas, Iraqs, etc. expect anything else…

    I don’t think that’s such a mystery anymore. There’s a lot coming out about McCain and the Bush administration writing checks the the Georgians that they couldn’t cover.

13. Comment by joe —
    August 16, 2008 @ 2:19 pm

    Or: tell it to the fans of an independent Kosovo; strangely, there didn’t seem to be the same massive concern for Serbia’s ownership of the province.

    I keep seeing people making assertions like this. I’d be interested to anyone attempt to back it up by showing statements from those who backed the Kosovo War and are now talking up EITHER Georgia’s or Russia’s rightful claim on South Ossetia.

    But I don’t think I will.

14. Comment by TGGP —
    August 16, 2008 @ 4:50 pm

    Their point 4 was stupid. The rest was alright.

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