Steele's analysis will hopefully provide OEN readers with an antidote to the worst jingoism purveyed by such reliable sources - remember their reporting on the outbreak of the US/UK war on Iraq ? - as the New York Times or the Washington Post. While it remains, of course, far too early in the game to pretend to know the final score, at this stage it certainly looks as if Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili and his CIA handlers wrongly assessed the situation when they assumed that, with Russian premier Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin attending the Beijing Olympics*, Russia's eye would be off the ball and the path open for a Georgian offensive against South Ossetia. What is unfortunate here is that thousands have died due to this rather inept attempt on the part of the United States and its puppet to advance their positions in this latest version of the Great Game. The likelihood, however, of these leaders having to answer for their crimes before a tribunal at Den Haag is minimal (Saakashvili, however, might want to be careful ; things don't always go too well for marionettes)....
Henri
*My guess is that the Chinese leadership are quietly fuming at this violation of the «Olympic Truce» and blatant attempt to steal the thunder of the opening of the Games, but careful and prudent as they usually are, will say nothing, as their vital interests are not touched. But I doubt they are particularly impressed with the statecraft of the United States....
