среда, сентября 10, 2008
The developments in the Caucasus were thrashed out in the Senate Standing Committee on Armed services. Eric S. Edelman, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (Department of Defense), and Daniel Fried, the Assistant Secretary at Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (Department of State) were invited to participate in the discussion. Mr Edelman’s address was the most surprising. “Although much is still unclear, it appears the Georgians conducted what they thought was a limited military operation with the political aim of restoring Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia,” he told the Senators. “The Georgian leadership’s decision to employ force in the conflict zone was unwise. The use of artillery fire and multiple launched rockets into urban areas and into the proximity of Russian peacekeepers is lamentable, and we do not condone this activity.”
Dana Rohrabacher, Rep. “All intelligence sources I contacted confirm that the recent hostilities in Georgia and its breakaway provinces were started by Georgia,” he stated. “Russians hold true. Georgians started it all. Russians put an end to it.” From the Congressman’s viewpoint, “The U.S. contrived to represent Russia as a foe throwing it in Iran’s arms.”
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