I survived the fall of Georgia. Washington is repeating the mistake that destroyed it

I did not read about the fall of the Soviet Union. I watched it from a sidewalk in Tbilisi, close enough to hear the rounds go by. In the winter of 1991 and into 1992, my classmates and I walked from our lectures to Rustaveli Avenue, where Georgia’s first democratically elected president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was…