It is an old political trick: nothing is like a won war to cure tumbling domestic popularity. Clinton bombed Serbia with depleted uranium to distract America from Ms. Lewinski blowjob prowess, Margaret Thatcher walloped Argentinians in the midst of her much hated economic shake-ups. There is even a movie about it: Wag The Dog.
But winning a war takes guts. The only guts Saakashvili has may be Condoleeza's balls of steel but one of the objectives of the war he started and lost is nevertheless met. Distracted by the anti-Russian hysteria in the mass media Georgians seem to have forgotten Saakashvili's trespassings:
Yet another none less important goal has been achieved. Public opinion in Georgia, which Russians consider a "brother country" has turned anti-Russian. This shall be quite instrumental in securing Georgia's positions as yet another peg in the strategy of Russia's containment.
The third goal: the pledge for more Western money and support. Without the major news splash that the South Ossetian conflict cause, Georgia would have stayed on the D-list of global politics. For Saakashvili it means one thing: Western aid reduces to a trickle. The spin doctors from the Belgian PR company that provided information control support for Georgian administration helped turn the tables around. Next few months watch American and European taxpayers' money pumped into Georgia by the billion.
Well done, Mikhail! In the absurd modern world of spin and political show business everything is upside down and the losers are oftentimes winners.
A good example of no-holds-barred American propaganda war: CNN uses footage of Tskhinvali shelled by the Georgians with the commentary about Russian attacks on Georgia:
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