The event of the Georgian Programme, or rather, its result, the situation, has proved to be one of the pivotal tremors which indicate a profound tectonic shift of the continental plates. The landscape is irrevocably altered. As a result of the incursion into Georgia and that tiny country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s political response, everything has changed. The very foundation of what they might grandly call their political philosophy, and everyone else their imperialist agenda, has collapsed in ruin \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I mean the American doctrine of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe War on Terror\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. That is the radical shift but from it others, too, can be discerned. The myth of an objective media has been simply blown away. The foundational viewpoint was that the Cold War was won by the illiterate American leader (\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMr Gorbachev, tear down that wall!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122) triumphing over the Evil Empire. Both the American appraisal of the enemy and the claim to victory over them have been engulfed by the tsunami that has been caused by this shift in the world situation.<\/p>\n