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Originally Posted by RobLL
"Mr. Saakashvili’s latest show of bravado came only a day after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that she and a special State Department envoy had explicitly and repeatedly warned him not to take any military action against Georgian separatists that might provoke Russia, cautioning that the United States was not prepared to back him militarily if he did. He also appeared to exaggerate the Pentagon’s planned relief operation, making it seem larger and further developed than it was." Thursday NYT,
This looks like it could also be a message to Russia, we "explicity and repeatedly told him not to take any military action..... the US was not prepared to back him militarily.."
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Well, if we did tell him not to do it, he was just plain crazy to go ahead, and I feel alot better about leaving them in the lurch as we did. We don't need allies who are going to get us into this kind of situation on purpose. No Great War styled "blank checks."