Comments on: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: joshua.foust http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1362 joshua.foust Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:28:33 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1362 <p>I think I’d ask, too, why anyone takes Yglesias seriously on this, either. Universal pundits really shouldn’t ever be relied upon for deep analysis of complex wars. When you really get down to it, both writers miss the fundamental point of that war.</p> I think I’d ask, too, why anyone takes Yglesias seriously on this, either. Universal pundits really shouldn’t ever be relied upon for deep analysis of complex wars. When you really get down to it, both writers miss the fundamental point of that war.

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1358 Teddy Partridge Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:35:41 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1358 <p>The ideological scrim is, of course, yet again used to cover up that this is, at heart, a resources war.</p> <p>Pipelines, oil, natural gas.</p> The ideological scrim is, of course, yet again used to cover up that this is, at heart, a resources war.

Pipelines, oil, natural gas.

]]> By: Spencer Ackerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1355 Spencer Ackerman Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:57:17 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1355 <p>He’s right about a lot of things domestic-policy oriented, but rarely about foreign policy. Why Jon opts to stray into those waters, I can’t say — if I decided to write about the federal budget, say, I’d get lots of things wrong too.</p> He’s right about a lot of things domestic-policy oriented, but rarely about foreign policy. Why Jon opts to stray into those waters, I can’t say — if I decided to write about the federal budget, say, I’d get lots of things wrong too.

]]> By: NelsonAlgren http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1354 NelsonAlgren Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:33:31 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1354 <p>Why does anyone take Jon Chait seriously? Has he been right about anything? Ever?</p> Why does anyone take Jon Chait seriously? Has he been right about anything? Ever?

]]> By: RockRichard http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1353 RockRichard Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:31:06 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/13/georgiarussiacategoryerrors/#comment-1353 <p>I’m with you on the Russo/Georgian ignorance thing, but everything I’ve read seems to state that Georgia hasn’t exactly been on their best diplomatic behavior either. They seem to have been rather heavy handed in dealing with South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The problem now though is that Russia has needlessly expanded hostilities into other parts of Georgia that have nothing to do with the conflict.</p> <p>But again, I’m a bit ignorant on the subject so I could be wrong.</p> I’m with you on the Russo/Georgian ignorance thing, but everything I’ve read seems to state that Georgia hasn’t exactly been on their best diplomatic behavior either. They seem to have been rather heavy handed in dealing with South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The problem now though is that Russia has needlessly expanded hostilities into other parts of Georgia that have nothing to do with the conflict.

But again, I’m a bit ignorant on the subject so I could be wrong.

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