Subject: In retrospect, I may have been a little too quick...
Posted by: Dawg151 on Wed Aug 13 2008 9:18:07 PM
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...to claim nothing was being done.
There's a good entry about this situation at the blog linked below.
In it, there's this little paragraph:
"Moving Georgia’s Iraq force home in US air transports was a
reminder of US strategic reach. That was a military option and it has
been employed. Who knows? It may have given Moscow some pause. We’ve
already seen at least one quasi-military option employed. Using USAF
cargo planes to bring humanitarian supplies is standard policy – but a
C-17 is a US military plane. That is a message, a limited, careful,
but calculated message, and constitutes a low-risk option that, well,
the order has been given and the transports are flying. The presence
of US military training forces in Georgia is a message — one Russia
chose to ignore. Beefing up the training and support mission is a
military option."
So, I guess some movements have been made...and when they were, you
saw Russia agree to the cease fire. The only thing that worries me
now is that there are reports now that they say they've stopped, but
they really haven't.
