He Doesn't Sound Chastened

In this article from today's NY Times Saakashvili has not changed his tone. He sounds as stupid as he has been acting. These are his words:

“We will fight to the end, until the last Russian soldier leaves Georgian soil and this country is not going to be brought to the knees anymore. We are not surrendering, no matter what.”

“We already saw U.S. Air Force landing in Georgia despite Russians controlling the airspace,” he said, after a C-17 had touched down. “And we will see U.S. military ships entering Georgian ports despite Russians blocking it. That we will see.” He added, “These will be serious military ships.”

For his part, Mr. Saakashvili was characteristically undeterred. He was asked Wednesday night whether if he could turn back the clock to late last week, when he said he received signs of Russian troops moving to the border, he would order an attack again.

“Absolutely,” he said, and couched the answer in terms of his own political survival. “We have an obligation to react to it. Any Georgian government that wouldn’t have reacted to it would have fallen instantly.”