Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili awarded on Monday the National Hero of Georgia title to U.S. Senator John McCain.
McCain, along with Senators John Barrasso and John Thune, arrived in Georgia on Sunday. The award ceremony was held on Monday in the southwestern Georgian resort of Batumi.
“The fact that a part of Georgia is free today is the achievement of our friends. It was the idea of freedom that stopped [Russian] tanks in Georgia,” Saakashvili said. (What? Until now we had been told that what “stopped” the Russians was the glorious Georgian military and now we are told that the Russian tanks were stopped by and *idea*?! – VS)
The U.S. senator, who repeatedly expressed his support for Georgia during and after its August 2008 military conflict with Russia, told Saakashvili by telephone on the day the ceasefire was agreed that “Today we are all Georgians.”
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Commentary: clearly, the Georgians are “loosing it” and lunacy has become the hallmark of Georgian politics.
Not related with this article, but this is quite interesting:
http://en.rian.ru/world/20100112/157522852.html
What do you think, Saker? Do you have more information on this? Any possibility that Turkey and Israel may break their decade-long partnership?
@Carlo: you know, I don’t really have any expertise on Turkey and I am not qualified to make a prediction. My gut feeling is that the USA, Israel and Turkey are in an iron pact that is unlikely to be jeopardized by such theatrics, but who knows? The Israelis have managed to piss of pretty much the entire planet, Israel is by far the most hated country on earth, and Jews have a long history of arrogance and overconfidence resulting in disasters so who knows has inept and deluded the Israeli rulers can be?
Your guess is as good, or better, than mine.
There are some very savvy Kurds regularly reading this blog and hopefully one of them will pick you your question and give you a better answer than I can.
Cheers,
VS