Completely crazy speculation – please tell me if I need to see a doc or something because the following is too whacky:

I found very interesting that Israel has so close military relations to Georgia. I always wondered how come that in the debates about a possible Israeli attack on Iran that Israeli attack plans would also include the use of helicopters for sending in special troops for marking targets, investigating how much damage was done by bombing, recovering pilots of shot down planes etc.

Now, to speculate a bit – where would these helicopters start from? Maybe from Georgia? If someone thought that this might be the case, maybe they would have yet another motive to invade Georgia proper, added to the control of oil pipelines and revenge for the humiliation over Kosovo? Someone would really doesn’t want Israel (or anyone else) to attack Iran?

Just look at the map! Georgia is pretty close to Iran, and using Georgia would solve some of the difficult problems with overflights over unfriendly territory Israel would otherwise have.

I’m not sure whether this has any real relationship to the reality, but if there was something to that thought, it surely would add another dimension to the current crisis.