Georgia’s decision to leave the Commonwealth of Independent States is just one more mindless, bratty temper tantrum.

The CIS would be a good forum where Georgia could raise this border issue and get a rather fair-minded hearing, since Russia is only one member and the rest of the members are non-Russian former Soviet Republics like Georgia.

The CIS exists because there is a need for such an institution to discuss, arbitrate and resolve many issues that are related to former membership in the Soviet Union. If all the CIS members follow Georgia’s bad example and quit the CIS, then the CIS inevitiably will be re-invented and re-constituted within the next ten years.