fred, one of the disappointing things to me has been the willingness of Republicans to criticize a President who is having to deal with an unprecedented assault while the nation is at war.

That’s not easy to deal with when the Whiskey’s of the world ignore the other side entirely and complains of what you aren’t doing — as if we live in a totalitarian society where the Executive decides all of these matters.

So now President Bush is Angela Merkel???

President Bush has been achieving against the odds during the entirety of his Presidency with experts on the left and right insisting on his stupidity and infidelity. It has been incredible.

I’d say a little faith is in order. The President of Georgia has published a piece in the Wall Street Journal and it sure appears to me that something of a methodical emergency process is being followed.

As I said before, the Russians haven’t miscalculated . . . yet. Those breakaway provinces may be too much of a headache for Georgia anyway. With so many stating so assuredly that Georgia has been baited into a trap, I’m still looking to see if the opposite is true. The desperate Russians may very well be the parties who were baited and have made the historic misstep.