Re What About the Ossetians?: Cato’s piece on the Russia-Georgia-Ossetia crisis is a bit odd. First, as Sheldon Richman notes, “the Georgian military response to … the secessionist ambitions of the majority in South Ossetia … was the immediate cause of the current war”; but the Cato piece blames Russia (“The war was a spectacular provocation that had been long prepared and successfully executed by the Russian ‘siloviki’”), without so much as mentioning Georgia’s own complicity, or Georgia’s status as neocon stooge. Further, as Richman notes, “Defenders of liberty … should … champion the cause of the brutalized Ossetians, who … Continue reading Cato on Russia v. Georgia v. S. Ossetia