Sure, but if the question is "did Washington give the go-ahead to attck South Ossetia?", I think the answer is "no."
--- On Sun, 8/10/08, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] South Ossetia
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 5:03 PM
> Even if the US is not involved immediately, it certainly is
> in regard to
>
> [a] expanding NATO (which of course the US promised it
> wouldn't do, at the
> time of the unification of Germany);
> [b] soliciting Georgia as a locus for oil and gas
> pipelines from the Caspian
> to Turkey (avoiding Russia);
> [c] supporting (if not more) the "Revolution of
> Roses" and Saakashvili; and
> [d] in another way, providing the example for
> dismantling states, as in
> Serbia (and now apparently Bolivia): in March the South
> Ossetians specifically
> invoked US support for Kosovo's secession when they
> rejected a Georgian
> power-sharing deal and insisted on full independence.
> --CGE
>
>
> Chris Doss wrote:
> > I actually doubt the US is involved.
> >
>
>
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