Georgia’s drumbeat to war
Published 08 July, 2008, 15:54
I have to hand it to Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili – he has learned well at the school of “black PR.” He wants war to recapture control of the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but only as long as he isn’t seen as the aggressor. Saakashvili is not very imaginative – he is just replaying the game plan of manipulating media that witnessed Washington needlessly (and at great cost) invade and occupy Iraq. The same outcome awaits Saakashvili.
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