Georgia on the neocons’ minds
Posted by Richard Spencer on August 21, 2008
The latest video from the Southern Avenger includes a line that’s deserving of Bartletts: “Neonconservatives look at war and terror like an ambitious bachelor looks at a messy divorce--the pain involved is of less concern than the opportunity created.”
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Wikipedia info on Georean revolution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Revolution
The “Revolution of Roses” (often translated into English as the Rose Revolution was a bloodless revolution in the country of Georgia in 2003 that displaced President Eduard Shevardnadze.
A significant source of funding for the Rose Revolution was the network of foundations and NGOs associated with American billionaire financier George Soros. The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies reports the case of a former Georgian parliamentarian who alleges that in the three months prior to the Rose Revolution, “Soros spent $42 million ramping-up for the overthrow of Shevardnadze.” Speaking in Tblisi in June of 2005, Soros said, “I’m very pleased and proud of the work of the foundation in preparing Georgian society for what became a Rose Revolution, but the role of the foundation and my personal has been greatly exaggerated.”
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Wikipedia 2-nd info: Georgean cabinet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temur_Iakobashvili
Temur Iakobashvili (also transliterated as Temuri Yakobashvili) (born 1967) is a Georgian political scientist, diplomat and politician serving as State Minister for Reintegration since January 31, 2008.
Iakobashvili was born into a Georgian Jewish family in Tbilisi. He graduated from the Department of Physics at Tbilisi State University in 1984. He further attended Diplomatic Course at the universities of Oxford and Birmingham in the United Kingdom (1998), obtained the Yale University scholarship for the World Leaders’ Program (2002), and took international security courses at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in the United States (2003).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kezerashvili
Davit Kezerashvili (born September 22, 1978, i.e. as of now he is 29 years old) is the Georgian Minister of Defence. Kezerashvili was born in Tbilisi. He studied in Russia and Israel before studying law and international relations at Tbilisi State University.
Kezerashvili is a former Israeli and is fluent in Hebrew. After working in the Justice Ministry he became an assistant to Mikhail Saakashvili. Saakashvili helped him become chief of the Tbilisi City Council. On November 11, 2006 he was appointed as Georgian Defense Minister, replacing Irakli Okruashvili. Shalva Natelashvili of the Georgian Labour Party criticized Kezerashvili’s appointment, arguing that he “has never served in the army… doesn’t even have the title of sergeant and has no clue about the armed forces.”
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Steve Sailer (http://isteve.com ) poses the question, which I reproduce here: should USA really be in a hurry to pull such a young defense minister (29 years old) into NATO ?
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It is easy for David Frum to advocate war from his comfortable, daddy-provided home on Foxhall Road.
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