Natan Sharansky: The Real Russia Problem - 'As the free world tries to formulate an effective response to Russia's recent incursion into Georgia, the focus understandably remains on how to ensure the withdrawal of troops from Russia's democratic southern neighbor. But policymakers might want to consider for a moment how we got to this point. The situation in Georgia is the culmination of a failed post-Cold War policy toward Russia. Central to this failure has been ignoring the inherent connection between internal freedom and external aggression. As democracy was rolled back within Russia, the world abandoned an approach that had been so effective during the later stages of the Cold War, when relations with the Kremlin were linked to the expansion of freedom inside the Soviet Union...'