Sounds like Putin’s Casus Belli was caused by Putin. Casus KGB, call it.

Now apparently Sen. Obama is comparing Russia’s actions in Georgia to US actions against Saddam: We set a bad example, don’t you know (and we should have known Putin will only follow the bad one). Of course we spent all that time at the UN getting 16 resolutions and an ultimatum. Putin didn’t pause long enough flip the UN the bird, just charged right in. I mean, I see the point: it is easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. But “Vlad the Invader” ain’t asking for forgiveness, either. And if he did, what would be the penance? Give it back? I mean, let’s be realists.

So apparently for Sen. Obama, the UN only exists to act as a check on Republican Presidents. Not tyrants and not Democrats: Republicans. And the UN has proved itself quite useless at that, so who needs it?