The idea that Bush should have fled Beijing in a panic simply galls me. Fled home to do what?

This is no time for rash action or empty threats. It’s no time to get the Fifth Column leftists agitating against him. The Russians have obviously thought this out past the three days it takes to overrun Georgia.

We must be very careful not to play to their script. They need a pretext to move on Ukraine. No public potbanging is going to stop them from executing their plans.