Victor's Justice in Georgia?

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat its mistakes, or so the adage goes. Apply this thinking to recent events in Georgia, and the post-electoral slew of arrests of former government officials in the former Soviet state makes sense.

The once opposition, now newly-minted government Georgian Dream coalition campaigned against the abuses of the increasingly authoritarian rule of President Mikheil Saakashvili and were rewarded with a strong popular and parliamentary majority, rightfully putting them in charge of the country. But the ink on the ballots was scarcely dry before the newly-elected government ordered scores of arrests and investigations of the outgoing members of Saakashvili’s government, raising more than a few eyebrows in the West, home to some of Georgia’s best friends in recent decades. Is the government of the Dreamers going too far?