Friends Are Going to Be Few and Far Between

Witnessing the way the U.S. has turned its back on the Republic of Georgia and its democratically elected government, other independent nations are going to think carefully at least twice about allying themselves with, or providing any help or support to us as Georgia did. Our responding to the attack on Georgia only with carefully modulated and totally ineffective words, muted criticism, is going to make allies hard to come by going forward.

Two more worthwhile things to take a look at on this:

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