Monday, August 18, 2008

Beware of the bear

The other day, it looked like there was a cease-fire agreement in place between Russia and Georgia. But remember what we said here--they key for determining whether this agreement was any good was simple: would the Russians actually withdraw.

Today there's evidence there's in fact no withdrawal.
My suspicion is that the Russians are trying to intimidate not only the Georgians, but other eastern European states as well, trying to keep them from drawing closer to the West.
President Bush will have to continue to take a tough line.