The X factor in all of this is still Bush. What’s he gonna do?

As the precious hours slip away after his pathetic news conference, there is still no indication that we are helping the Georgians in any significant way. CFM is right, we still can turn this around. A few UAV’s. stingers and Javelins could bloody the Russian’s nose enough to give them pause. However,
Whiskey is probably right if the Russians can eliminate the vast majority of Georgian military personnel there probably won’t be anyone able to fight a guerilla war.

That said, it was apparent from the news conference that Bush was still not as up to speed as Cheney was over 30 hours ago. He clearly had been fooled and lied to by Putin. Yet, there seems to be no payback yet. The State Department even issued a statement today to the effect that we would definitely not get involved, giving exactly the opposite impression that Cheney wanted to achieve. Bush still lets the State Department get away with that crap. W has surrounded himself with too many appeasement tools like Gates and Condi.

If W lets this go to shit, the enduring image for me will be W playing patty cake with US Women’s Volleyball doubles team at the Olympics while Russia is carving up our Ally.

If McCain really wants to lead, then he should suggest more specific forceful action right now, goading W into action. Our military can’t overcome bad leadership by our politicians all the time.