Get it together
I’ve been watching what’s going on in South Ossetia and Georgia. Firstly with a sense of foreboding and then with a feeling of disbelief.
Let me sum up my understanding of what happened…. Georgia tried to retake a pro-Russian breakaway region by military force, Russia stepped in and Georgia got a kicking. The west is not happy because we have an investment in Georgia, namely a BP oil pipeline.
Now a few thoughts, what the hell were the Georgians thinking by using force? If the South Ossetians are that pro Russian, then the army is the last thing you need to use, by what I’ve read they dislike Georgia even more now and who can blame them?!
As far as the West goes, well, we’ve rampaged round the world dispensing democracy at gunpoint for too long. The bottom line is that our way of running things is unsustainable, in trying to desperately keep the old failing system going we’re going to wreck half the world. Our inability to recognise the simple truth that we need to change will wreck our own countries as well in short order.
Maybe we should put our own houses in order a little first. We need to find a new, sustainable way of living and we should recognise have little to no moral high ground left to preach to anyone from.
It’s time for change.
Eminently sensible. Much too sensible, really, for the absurd reasoning that seems to govern us these days. I’m hoping that Obama has tapped in to a groundswell of recognition of the truth of what you say?
I too hope Obama can make a positive change, prompted by your coverage of him, I’ve taken the time to investigate his website. I like him and if I was American, he’d have my vote. He’s going to inherit an awful mess though, I think that we’re looking at a global economic Hurricane Katrina, no matter who gets in and a lot of other pigeons are coming home to roost.
The way that the west portrayed the conflict was to tarnish Russia in a bad light. At the end of the day Georgia started the conflict so it is no wonder as to why the Russians wanted to make an example of them.