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| Georgians trust in God: in Saakashvili, not so much |
| 2008-08-14 |
| The Georgian people are fabled for their generosity and charm - sometimes to ridiculous extremes. As a heavy Russian artillery assault pounded one village near the Ossetian border, an old Georgian woman crept alongside a garden wall where I was taking shelter to offer me apples from her orchard. Yet many Georgians have a tendency towards recklessness - as anyone who has driven on their roads can confirm. The international consensus is that Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, took the national trait of recklessness to a farcical level when he decided to launch an offensive to liberate the region of South Ossetia from separatist rebel control. |
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