<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3ece020a-7af6-4188-be07-924776d9f762/EB034B93-4CDF-499E-9694-4327A8E9641C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inteldump/2008/09/hezbollah_to_the_rescue.html" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inteldump/2008/09/hezbollah_to_the_rescue.html" style="font-size: 11px;">voices.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inteldump/2008/09/hezbollah_to_the_rescue.html">In the first place, by all accounts, the Georgian army conducted itself poorly in their brief conflict with Russia last month. Many troops panicked and fled well before they even had contact with the advancing Russians. If history is any guide (which it is, on occasion) the Russians will not respect the Georgian's fighting ability for this reason alone, while on the other side, the young men of Georgia will no doubt long for the day when they can restore their national honor. This, compounded by the fact that Russia effectively stole South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is loudly proclaiming that he will re-unify the country, almost guarantees another war. We should consider this fully before we decide to re-arm Georgia.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inteldump/2008/09/hezbollah_to_the_rescue.html">I am very sympathetic to Georgia's plight and its desire to get out from under Russia's thumb. But, painful as it might be to its citizens, they have to understand that the lost provinces are not coming back. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EB034B93-4CDF-499E-9694-4327A8E9641C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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