Haul out your vintage Rand McNalley World Atlas Centennial Edition and look on page 29. You will notice that one of the bordering nations to Georgia is named Iran. It is only about 500 miles from Tblisi to Tehran.

And if you launched an airstrike from Israel to hit Iran, you would need a suitable place to land and refuel. Perhaps even a place where you could load up and hit them again on the way back. Where? Not Turkey. Not Iraq. Using either of them would cause problems. Where? Maybe a place where you have been cooperating with the people there already for years on aircraft weapons systems. A place like ….Uh huh.

If Russia doesn’t like having our forces in Georgia and the people there waving all those American flags, then how do you think the Iranian government feels?

And we did not warn Georgia or warn Russia diplomatically about initiating hostilities, even though we had over 150 military advisors in Georgia and the Russian troop movements must have shown up on our overhead recon better than the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade does on TV? Uh huh.