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examines rebuilding Georgia's militaryTue Sep 9, 2008 9:39pm
BST
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
...
SYMPATHY
FOR RUSSIA
In a separate hearing on Tuesday in the U.S. House of
Representatives, several lawmakers from both parties criticized the Bush
administration approach as anti-Russian and to the detriment of U.S.
interests.
"Our friends in Russia are as important as our friends in
Georgia. We must find a balance," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas
Democrat. She said $1 billion dollars in aid for Georgia was "over the top" and
hoped Congress would cut it.
"The Russians are right! We're wrong!
Georgia started it, the Russians ended it," Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, a California
Republican, told Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried, who testified on
administration policy to both the Senate panel and the House Foreign Affairs
Committee.
Rohrbacher said the situation with Georgia's breakaway regions
was clearly analagous to Kosovo, which was part of Serbia until it declared
independence in February with U.S. support. For U.S. officials to keep saying
there was no correlation "undermines our credibility," he said.
- Независимость - это когда в 20-й раз наступаешь на одни и те же грабли, а русские уже ни при чем....