"And there’s surely more than one."

There are as many as there are individuals. However, unlike Rockwell, I don't think you or I are at all interested in producing something that might, at some point, end up a sound bite.

However, the Raimondo article he links to leaves me thinking there's at least something to his position, but it begs the question; if the Russians are in what is - secessionist, independent or whatever - not their land, how can they not be aggressors? There's nothing in either of the blog posts or Raimondo's article to indicate that South Ossetia attacked Russia. Neither Rockwell's post nor Raimondo's article answers that question. If the Russians had taken it upon themselves to defend a peaceable act of secession (don't laugh or scream "bullshit!" yet, please, I'm not done yet) I would take no exception to their presence, if the people of South Ossetia wanted their help and had asked for it. However, that really doesn't seem to be the case.

One especially murky detail is; who fired/moved over a border first? Maybe I'm totally out of the loop here (no, I know I'm totally out of the loop here) but that seems to be an especially important detail when one wants to start pointing fingers. Well, Raimondo's position is that Saakashvili has been violating Ossetian sovereignty for some time, which they've unimpeachably, legally, held since 1991, or so he says. That point aside, who fired first this time?

Strictly speaking all of this is really irrelevant, however. There's two criminal gangs fighting over a piece of turf. "Our ten square feet of ground" as Cyrus would say. I say a pox on both their houses. May they wake up tomorrow leprous, with scabies crawling about their many sores. May every man among that lot suffer a special variety of torment not known since Herod was laid low and slain by it. And may the innocent who have been made to endure their wickedness wake up to a world that is wholly, utterly, their own. Wishful thinking yes, but it's a good wish, I should think.