Poor Georgia. The mouse roared, and the lion pounced instead of running away in fright. Russia's invasion 's it can be called nothing else 's of Georgia was neatly encapsulated by a smirking soldier who told journalists that after all, one neighbor does not need an invitation to visit another. But as tough as it was on Georgia, it was equally tough, if not more so, on what political shorthand calls the civilized world.Georgia overestimated both Russia's status in that world and that world's readiness to act on the principles about which it so often blathers. Georgia got a whipping, and th...
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