Saakashvili, a costly ally
With the construction of a major Russia-circumventing pipeline having just started at the time of Georgia's November 2003 election, it was essential for the US to ensure that Tbilisi's stance would be lastingly and unfalteringly pro-western - something the young president clearly delivered on for many years.
Yet the honeymoon Washington has enjoyed with its Georgian mate since the Rose Revolution should have ceased a year ago almost to the day when Saakashvili headed down the slippery slope of authoritarianism.
Read more of Andrew's case for reining in Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili in ISN's Security Watch.
Andrew D. Bishop
Andrew is a graduate of the London School of Economics currently working for the think tank branch of a leading non-profit foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a young freelance journalist and the founder, director, and editor of Leader's Talk, a platform dedicated to covering interviews given by world leaders on a daily basis. Andrew blogs at What You Must Read
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