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The Crisis in the Caucasus
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Regarding Mikhail Gorbachev's Aug. 12 op-ed, "A Path to Peace in the Caucasus":
It is near-laughable to believe that "Russia has continued to recognize Georgia's territorial integrity." In respecting territorial integrity, there is an implicit co-tenet of respecting political integrity. This Russia has not done, especially after Georgia became more open about embracing the West.
The Russian response was a virtual repeat of the Prague Spring of 1968, when the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia and stamped out its democracy movement. Although "Russia had to respond," Mr. Gorbachev did not say why. Russia has its own problems with regions clamoring for autonomy or independence. Chechnya comes to mind.
Furthermore, Mr. Gorbachev did not explain why a rocket attack on a regional capital, for whatever reason, merited the response of effectively cutting a country in half. Joseph Stalin would have been pleased. The rest of us are not.
JERRY E. SULLIVAN
Vienna
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