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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Putin Makes His Move — 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 …
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New York Times:
Georgia Fight Spreads, Moscow Issues Ultimatum — GORI, Georgia — Russia issued an ultimatum to Georgian forces on Monday to surrender completely in and around the western pro-Russian separatist enclave of Abkhazia, in a sign that fighting could escalate on a second front in the west of Georgia.
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William Kristol / New York Times:
Will Russia Get Away With It? — In August 1924, the small nation of Georgia, occupied by Soviet Russia since 1921, rose up against Soviet rule. On Sept. 16, 1924, The Times of London reported on an appeal by the president of the Georgian Republic to the League of Nations.
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Klaus Marre / The Hill:
McCain calls for U.N. resolution against Russia — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday called on the United Nations Security Council to condemn Russia's aggression against Georgia. — “We should move ahead with the resolution despite Russian veto threats, and submit Russia to the court …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What Is Maximum Pressure? — Washington Times calls for the United States to exert “maximum pressure” on Russia in defense of Georgia. This means, what, exactly? Deploy troops? Threaten nuclear war? And then there's Robert Kagan who, as you'll recall, is considered the respectable neocon.
Tony Halpin / Times of London:
We helped in Iraq - now help us, beg Georgians — As Russia forces its neighbour to retreat from South Ossetia, the people of Gori tell our correspondent of betrayal by the West — As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won't America and Nato help us?
Mikheil Saakashvili / Wall Street Journal:The War in Georgia Is a War for the West
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Blake Fleetwood / The Huffington Post:What a Convenient Little War for The Republicans
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Jonathan Martin / Yahoo! News:McCain warns Russians of “severe, long-term negative consequences”
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Washington Post:Black Sea Watershed
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ABCNEWS:
Wolfson: Edwards' Cover-up Cost Clinton the Nomination — Aides Say She Would Have Won Iowa if Edwards Affair was Exposed — Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year …
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ABCNEWS:
Is John Edwards Still Lying? — Former Friend of Ex-Mistress Says Edwards Still Not Telling the Whole Truth — A one-time close friend of John Edwards' ex-mistress says the former Senator is still not telling the whole truth about how his affair with Rielle Hunter began.
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Plans for Clinton convention rallies intensify — Frustrated supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) are planning multiple rallies at the Democratic convention in Denver, coupled with television and print advertisements. — The disenchanted Democrats want to express their disappointment …
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
7 worrisome signs for Obama — A few weeks back, Time magazine was musing that John McCain was in danger of sliding from “a long shot” to a “no-shot.” Around the same time, a hard-nosed former Hillary Clinton insider declared the race “effectively over” thanks to the McCain campaign's ineptitude …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama to McCain: Who's the ‘celebrity?’ — In the celebrity by association game, which is worse: Paris Hilton or President Bush? — Barack Obama is banking on Bush's association with John McCain, targeted in a new campaign TV ad that links, with several big “embraces,” …
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Bush 41 In China: Kinda Like Old Times — Former President Is Back on Familiar, if Changed, Ground — BEIJING — Former president George H.W. Bush doesn't give a lot of interviews these days, and for one simple reason: He doesn't want to have to start talking about his son, the president.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
All American Insult — Cokie Roberts said today that Obama shouldn't be going on vacation anywhere that has the “look of a foreign exotic place” and should go to Myrtle Beach instead. Apparently, Hawaii isn't quite American enough for Cokie and her provincial pals in the beltway, even though it's one of the 50 states.
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Color-Coded Campaign — Why isn't Obama doing better in the polls? The answer no one wants to hear. — From the eleventh-floor headquarters of Barack Obama's campaign on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, 2008 looks a lot like 1980—with the ideological polarities reversed.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Can It Happen Here? — The draft Democratic Party platform that was sent out last week puts health care reform front and center. “If one thing came through in the platform hearings,” says the document, “it was that Democrats are united around a commitment to provide every American access to affordable, comprehensive health care.”
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Summer School for Presidential Candidates — From watching polls in the presidential race this summer, it would appear that for all the campaign rallies, television advertisements and attacks launched by Senators John McCain and Senator Barack Obama, not much has really changed.
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Ted Johnson / Wilshire & Washington:
Angelina Jolie's Endorsement — It may seem as if most entertainment industry figures are aligning with Barack Obama and just a few with John McCain, but there are still a handful of famous names who are still on the fence. And both campaigns are well aware of one star who stands out among the undecideds: Angelina Jolie.
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