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Russia halts fighting in Georgia – what went wrong in Iraq, Eastern Europe, and Georgia?
Russians apparently achieved their strategic goals. But international think tanks believe Putin may have launched the biggest insult for the current US president George Bush before he leaves office.
Russia ordered a halt to military action in Georgia on Tuesday, after five days of air and land attacks that sent Georgia's army into headlong retreat and left towns, military bases and homes in the U.S. ally smoldering. Georgia insisted that Russian forces were still bombing and shelling.
Sources say, Russian offensive punch is coming to a grinding halt as they close in on the Georgian capital. The Russian military is worried about creating another ‘Iraq’ in Georgia.
There are some strange similarities between Bush’s Iraq invasion and Russia’s Georgia take over, however, a lot is not similar.
What really happened in Iraq, Eastern Europe, and Georgia is an episode of an immature less than adequately educated US presidency. George Bush has finally learnt about the world politics. Bill Clinton also learnt the same in eight years. The sad story is that in US schools world history, culture, and geography is taught sparingly. As a result, the educated US population is vastly ignorant about world affairs, cultural diversities, and geopolitical significances. Bill Clinton stayed in UK for a while. As a result he was somewhat in a better shape. But George Bush unlike his father was totally ignorant about world affairs, history, geopolitics, and geography. He selected his cabinet from whom he liked with little knowledge about the world. In his book, everything was Texan Cowboy Politics – might and money equal power, defiance and arrogance.
He treated Iraq with little respect. He lied about weapons of mass destruction and Saddam’s link to Al-Queda. He instigated the former Soviet states like Georgia and Ukraine with hope that Russians will not dare challenge American interests. He went ahead with missile defence plan with arrogance and defiance without understanding the geopolitical fall out.
America must make sure any new American President passes a test on world affairs, geography, history, and geopolitics before entering the oval office. Under George Bush, America has lost more than two trillion dollars because of ill informed decisions and mismanagement of resources. If this continues, eventually America will become a third world country with little resource to spare.
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