Author: Religious Right = Fascism American StyleReligious Right = Fascism American Style Date: Aug 17, 2008 15:37
The drive to secede
Georgian provinces likely to join Russia
By Eric Margolis
On Aug. 8 Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin swiftly and deftly
checkmated the United States on the Georgian strategic chessboard.
Georgia's President, Mikheil Saakashvili, fell right into Moscow's
trap.
Georgia and Russia have been feuding since 1992 over two Georgian
ethnic enclaves, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, whose people wanted to
decamp Georgia and join Russia.
The young, U.S.-educated Saakashvili became Georgia's president in
2003 after an uprising, believed organized by the CIA and financed by
U.S. money, overthrew the able former leader, Eduard Shevardnadze. I
interviewed Shevardnadze in Moscow when he was Mikhail Gorbachev's
principal ally and architect of Soviet reform.
Saakashvili quickly became the golden boy of U.S. right wing neocons,
who saw him as a model of how to turn former Russian-dominated states
into "democratic" U.S. allies. Critics claim Saakashvili kept power by
bribery and vote rigging.
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