We may be quickly surrounded with Russian compliant states limiting our options and power in ways we can’t now foresee.

That’s what I’m talking about. If you believe this, you are experiencing cortical malfunction.

You can’t really believe it’s best for Bush to get us into a global war to save Saakashvili’s government, can you? I mean, losing the democrats in Georgia is bad, yes. But it’s roses next to what you’re advocating.

If Russia ends up occupying Georgia, there are far better ways to make them pay for it (some well-known acronyms come to mind).