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Originally Posted by Azure
Why? You even said yourself he is doing the right thing, but you still criticize him for doing it?
The situations are completely incomparable. I'm sure even Russia understands that.
Quit looking at this from the 'Bush is doing it' viewpoint, and instead look at is as the 'US is doing it.'
Maybe that wouldn't cloud the issue so much.
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US foreign policy saw them violate international law in the invasion of Iraq. The situations are most certainly comparable. What justification did the United States have in an invasion of a sovereign, independent country that doesn't even border their own?
For that matter, what justification does the United States have in any military action around the world?
If South Ossetia invited the Russians to protect them, wouldn't that be similar to any other breakaway state inviting the Americans to help them?
The United States is justified in condemning the actions of the Russians ONLY on the basis that they are standing up for their ally. That being said, if their ally is the provocateur, then perhaps it would also be wiser to reign in the admittedly wild Georgian president.