Bush and Cheney are a spent force. Anyone betting they’ll act is not following political reality.

There is NO, repeat NO ability politically in the US to do anything but mouth platitudes. Bush would be impeached if he dared do anything in Georgia. Cheney is a marginal figure in his own administration — Gates and Condi run things now. And they’re OK with Russia over-running Georgia.

We are back to post-Mogadishu America. It took a while, but the Hard Left got it’s way and that is reality. It won’t change with McCain, certainly not with Obama, and would not change with a nuking of a city.

Only with THREE US cities lost would that finally change, and then terribly. This is reality. Safe, suburban life and consumerism leads to the fantasy that everything and everywhere and everyone looks like the inhabitants of the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica or the Grove in West LA. Since that’s the only reality people in charge have ever experienced. Only seeing a city in the US personally nuked and most of your friends/family dead in an ugly death, three times over, will change that.

George III said it took great character to survive indolence, and the US has not had that great character to survive fabulous wealth and peace for generations.