He Who Has the Biggest Gun

A sign of things to come. If you go to Georgia, bring your bullets because you may need them.

A truce between Russia and Georgia has failed to open up the conflict zone to much-needed emergency supplies, aid agencies and EU officials said Thursday, as UN staff were held up by armed gunmen.

The United Nations workers were ambushed in the Georgian city of Gori before having their vehicles stolen, an official said, adding that the area was not yet considered safe enough for aid workers to operate in.

Robert Watkins, UN resident coordinator for Georgia, told AFP two UN-marked cars were taken by "paramilitary" gunmen after security officials doing a safety assessment there were stopped at gunpoint.

We are thinking if the Americans go to Georgia, they won't be fighting Russia, but there will be some fighting. Russia will use the paramilitary forces in the provinces for a proxy war.

And it is a safe bet those guys won't be withdrawing, after all, according to the law they are Georgians, and don't have to.