Buddy,

You are correct that the Georgian people were left high and dry, by our support for Saakashvili pushing it to the limit, then when Russia called his (and Uncle Sam’s) bluff having to retreat in humiliating fashion. Read Ben Smith’s piece in the Politico – it’s really appalling, either Bush’s national security advisors were shockingly ignorant of the region or they were played, by Soros or someone else, like a fiddle.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32487.html

That’s also what happens when you pick fights with other people in their back yard and they (the Russians in this case) have far more at stake then you do.

We should have learned that lesson by staying out of Vietnam which Eisenhower wanted to do, only sending advisors, but Kennedy and perhaps the people who killed him wanted to escalate. The last two years has led me to question everything and start wondering if the Kennedy assassination and other conspiracy theorists have a point.

Better get set to host more Afghan restaurants in D.C., that’s all I can say, because that will probably be one of the only places left in America in five years where the folks can still afford exotic eateries.