Sorry for the snide tone. Sometimes it’s just hard to believe what gets said, and what gets responded to, on this blog. I should probably be used to it by now, since I’ve been here since 2002, but some of these comments are so over-the-top stupid that a leftist troll would be hard pressed to exaggerate it with parody.

All that said, Russia has made a tremendous strategic error. Once again, as they have done so many times in their imperialist history, the Russians have clarified the geopolitical alternatives, in a way most unhelpful to them. When the dust settles in Georgia, they’ll be looking at a new era of adverse coalitionism and blowback containment. It’s like they bought the Washington Generals, hoping to turn them into a powerhouse franchise.

So forget an ideas of an American military response. Our stock just went up, guys. Big time.