Slobodan Milo
Mitt Romney, Latter-Day Neocon
Ending Our Age of Suffering
Red Herring
Why did Russia really invade Georgia? In late September, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov appeared before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and offered a rather stunning explanation. Lavrov--who previously spent a decade as Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, where he mastered the body of international precedents and U.N. Security Council resolutions that together make up the de facto law of nations--informed his audience that, by attacking Georgia, Moscow was implementing a principle endorsed by the Security Council in 2006: the "responsibility to protect." READ MORE >>
Balkan Ghosts
You would need to have the heart of a Kremlin functionary to be unmoved by the scene that unfolded in Kosovo's capital, Priština, this week. There, in a fitting and just epilogue to the last mass crime of the twentieth century, Kosovar Albanians poured into the streets to celebrate their secession from the state that had so recently brutalized them. READ MORE >>
