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Both Russia and Georgia are guilty of atrocities. However, Georgia's heavy shelling of South Ossetia, including civilian areas, must preclude it from being seen as a victim. I would expect that type of language from Fox News, but I expect a powerful media outlet like Time to report the truth in an unbiased manner. Chris Pappas, LUBBOCK, TEXAS...
...Ethnic Divide I partly agree with Andrew Purvis' Briefing on Georgia [Sept. 1]. However, on the question of the two ethnic entities now not being able to live side by side any time soon, one must remember that toward the end of the former Soviet Union the South Ossetians had a degree of autonomy. It was the new Georgian government that unilaterally revoked this autonomous status. So, at a moment of crisis, what should Russia have done but come to the rescue of its people (although in military terms the way it was done was definitely disproportionate)? I wonder what...
Pointing Fingers Over Georgia Has Zbigniew Brzezinski [Aug. 25] forgotten that the U.S. invaded Iraq under false pretenses and is still there? Is it so different from the Russian invasion of Georgia? Bernard Saint-Jacques, NORTH VANCOUVER...
...northern Indian oceans. They believe that rising ocean temperatures - due to global warming - are one of the main causes behind that change. "There is a robust signal behind the shift to more intense hurricanes," says Judith Curry, chair of the school of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. (Hear Curry talk about warming and hurricanes on this week's Greencast...
...Armenia is particularly eager to find a way to reopen its border with Turkey, because it is currently forced to conduct its international trade via Georgia's Black Sea ports. That corridor has been squeezed by the Russian military action in Georgia; a key railway bridge was mined and the port of Poti remains occupied by Russian troops...