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Georgia's Recklessness TOOLBOX Resize » Links to this article By Paul J. Saunders Washington Post Friday, August 15, 2008; Page A21 . What's clear, however, is that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili ordered his country's military to assert his authority over South Ossetia by force. American officials should reflect on the implications of Saakashvili's behavior for U.S. policy toward Georgia, Russia and the region. The Risk of the Zinger By David Ignatius Washington Post Wednesday, August 20, 2008; Page A15 In the aftermath of the Georgia war, many commentators have argued that the mercurial Saakashvili walked into a trap by launching an attack Aug. 7 on the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali -- providing the pretext for the brutal Russian response. That conclusion emerges from a meticulous reconstruction by The Post's Peter Finn. It was especially wrong to give a volatile leader such as Saakashvili what he evidently imagined was an American blank check. In the post-Cold War world, small countries often get into fights they can't finish -- hoping that big powers will come to their rescue We Are All Georgians"? Not So Fast Sunday 17 August 2008, Washington Post » by: Michael Dobbs, The Washington Post On the night of Aug. 7 and into Aug. 8, Saakashvili ordered an artillery barrage against Tskhinvali and sent an armored column to occupy the town. He apparently hoped that Western support would protect Georgia from major Russian retaliation, even though Russian "peacekeepers" were almost certainly killed or wounded in the Georgian assault. It was a huge miscalculation.
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