US Involvement, Georgian-Russian conflict

""Your argument essentially boils down to they are our friends so we help them no matter what, practically. That's blind ideology if I ever saw it." This is an outright lie." well, i can see why you say that's what i said. what i meant was,,, by them being our friend, they have things that are beneficial to us. in international relations, friends are only those who help you, mostly. i mean, we can say we're friends with some random poor country in africa, but it's not truly friends.... my point is that i understood your argument to include that, and i did indeed address it, even if you misunderstood my point in that one recap. also... even your new claim that it's undisputed that Goeriga own it, is unsubstnatiated. you cited a link to it, but it's a link that doesn't take you anywhere and is only about claims of one side, nothing authorititve. she couldn't provide authrity on this, cause there is none, to make her new position what she says. even if you had authority on the point, you shoulda hve argued it to begin with though, and that you didn't means it's not fair for me to lose this debate when your argument was essentially. "they're our friends, an have good things there or us, so we should help them regardless". look at my opponents links... she had to provide new ones than compared to her first post, that didn't even make her point. so, not only hypocritical, also inconsistent, and lying... also, that my opponent simply asserts georgia owns it, then links somewhere without explaining the details, is telling. "My opponent also states, "You say [sovereignty] should be respected, Georgia's, is why Russia should leave. If sovereignty should be respected,,,, then the US would be doing exactly what you're telling Russia not to do.. thus your [hypocrisy]." I would like the reader to review my earlier arguments and note that nowhere have I dictated what Russia should or should not do, but rather what the U.S. should do in response. " i never said you were saying that russia should simply comply with the US's wishes, as if you were saying Russia can't be a soverign. if you will read what was said... and think about it... "Russia shouldn't invade Georgia even though Georgia in invading the small South O, because we have to respect Georgia's soverenty.": is what your argument is. Then, you go on to not care about the US no respecting the sovernty of Russia, ie, it's attacking a country just as much as georgia is. that's how you're a hypocrite, not what you claimed I said. Think about it like a big fish eating a little fish. it's like you're saying "that cat fish should'nt eat that gold fish. let's go eat the cat fish." You would have been logical... if you at least made the distinction about South O belonging to Russia were not included in the reasoning itself about whether the US would be hypocritical to attack. Your argument was an incidental point only, about a reason for us to invade Russia etc, you didn't make the distinction. My opponent simply makes assertions, no facts. Her opening statement is telling,,, simply help your friends cause they are your firends and can help you, regardless of whether they are right or not. My stance is based on the fact that there's a good faith dispute about the country, not just that I have antiamerican sentiment,,, it's a strawman my opponent creates. (I want to USA to kick as much @$$ as the next american does when it's in the right) my oponnent had to change her argument, cause it was obvious her initial response was blatantly wrong,,, and even still her response was unexplained, and her source didn't say what she claimed it did. My opponent's response reeks of blind patriotism, and nationalism, for the USA's interests and rationalizing its stances with reasons as fleeting as building a house on sand.