A Really Bad Couple of Weeks for Pax Americana

By Jim Lobe
Whatever hopes the George W. Bush administration may have had for using its post-9/11 "war on terror'' to impose a new Pax Americana on Eurasia, and particularly in the unruly areas between the Caucasus and the Khyber Pass, appear to have gone up in flames – in some cases, literally – over the past two weeks. Not only has Russia reasserted its influence in the most emphatic way possible by invading and occupying substantial parts of Georgia after Washington's favorite Caucasian, President Mikhail Saakashvili, launched an ill-fated offensive against secessionist South Ossetians.
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Posted by Editor at August 25, 2008 12:28 AM