[Peace-discuss] NYT: forget about NATO membership for Georgia...

[slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:32:50PM -0500, Robert Naiman wrote:
> U.S. Won't Push NATO To Admit Georgia
> Helene Cooper, New York Times, August 19, 2008
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/world/europe/19rice.html
> 
> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that the United States
> would not push for Georgia to be allowed into NATO at an emergency
> meeting on Tuesday, a tacit admission that America and its European
> allies lack the stomach for a military fight with Russia.
 [...]
> The NATO charter says that an attack on one alliance member is an
> attack on all, which could well have led to a military confrontation
> with Russia if Georgia were already in NATO, a prospect that has left
> many European governments queasy.
> ...
> If European countries were afraid to let Georgia and Ukraine into NATO
> at Bucharest in April for fear of angering Russia, why would they
> admit them now, after Russia has demonstrated that it is willing to
> fight over Georgian territory?
 [...]


It's an ill wind as blows nobody good.

:)