With so much happening

With so much happening in America and Iraq, I had only dimly noticed the crisis brewing and then finally coming to a seemingly happy conclusion in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. On Sunday night longtime Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze — whose dominance in the country/republic stretched far back into the Soviet era — resigned amid massive, but peaceful, popular protests. This article in Tuesday’s Washington Post describes the way the Georgian opposition very consciously modeled its effort on the recent revolution in Serbia.