What the hell is wrong with Sakaashvili?

Not good news for fans of stability in the Caucuses.

“We had a choice here,” he said. “We could turn this country into Chechnya — we had enough people and equipment to do that — or we had to do nothing and stay a modern European country.”

He added: “Eventually we would have chased them away, but we would have had to go to the mountains and grow beards. That would have been a tremendous national philosophical and emotional burden.”

That line, at the end of the NYT's account of Sakaashvili's response to the terms of the peace agreement with Russia, is certainly funny. But it's also reflective of just how delusional the Georgian president is. His army was crushed, territory was lost, and their chances to join NATO are shot. Yet, he's going to go back to the same policy that existed prior to his instigation of the current conflict. He even stated that Abkhazia and South Ossetia would be "forever as always" a part of Georgia's territory.

That is absolutely insane.