The details of who did what to precipitate Russia's war against Georgia are not very important. Do you recall the precise details of the Sudeten Crisis that led to Nazi Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia? Of course not, because that morally ambiguous dispute is rightly remembered as a minor part of a much bigger dramaReally? The Nazi's huh?
It is exactly this kind of grandiose, anti-realist, analysis that has made our foreign policy decisions so unproductive during the Bush years. Let's everyone say this together now: Seeing the world through this neo-con lens does not work.
If you taped Putin's eyes open and forced him to read this, do you figure he'd be thinking, "damn it all, Robert Kagan is on to me" before smiling menacingly, or do you think he'd just laugh his ass off?
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What are you talking about? Any situation can be viewed through the Nazi Lens. The Nazis gave as a historical Rosetta stone, a template we can use to decode the political and moral significance of any scenario, any question. I may not know history, but I do own the entire Indiana Jones series, and I think Kagan knows what’s up. Disagreeing with Kagan is the first step on the path to a terrorist victory.
Good point. I'd write more, but I need to go put Red Dawn in my Netflicks queue. I prefer the lens of history through Robert Kagan through Patrick Swayze.
Nobody puts Robert Kagan in the corner.
I think Kagan is right on with this one- just like Hitler's invasion of Poland, the invasion of Georgia is Putin securing his flank to set the stage for his secretly planned ultimate objective- the invasion of Russia.
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