It remained for a former Tory foreign secretary to dash a little cold water of sanity on these overheated effusions. On Friday Sir Malcolm Rifkind chided the folly of making threats about the use of force when these are obviously not going to be carried out. And the day before he had said, "I think people in both the United States and in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in western Europe will have to ask very clearly how important is Georgia to them.
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What Really Happened: Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Why are we pretending we would fight for Georgia?
By mememan - Posted on August 17th, 2008
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