I managed to wean my focus away from the presidential campaign just long enough yesterday to read an outstanding op-ed by Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post about how the next great international crisis and war could well ignite over…..Abkhazia.
“Ab-wha’?” you ask.
And that’s Applebaum’s point exactly. We’re so consumed with our domestic election — and, to the extent we’re focusing overseas at all, with Iraq — that we’re paying scant attention to important, and potentially dangerous, developments around the world.
I once wrote about Abkhazia’s independence movement, when I was based in Moscow, and yet everything in Applebaum’s column was news to me. And I doubt Obama, McCain or Clinton has thought much about — or been briefed on — Abkhazia. Let’s hope we all get away with it.