roger, you embaress yourself by writing on things which you very clearly know nothing about. pathological hatred for all things russian, no matter how sincere john mccain is in expressing it, does not a fully formed foreign policy make. you can talk all you want about obama’s naivite, but it’s a very sad day indeed when mindlessly supporting a miniscule, poverty stricken pseudo-democratic (saakashvili once won 96% of the vote. either he’s the best politician in human history, or something is fishy about the vote) statelet becomes the “realistic” position while respecting the position of a far more important, powerful and, especially in this case, justified country is the “weak willed” or “irresponsible” one.

you would think that, for a self-styled intellectual such as yourself, the stinging defeats (oh, wait, i’m sure you don’t admit they’re stinging, much less defeats) we are suffering in iraq would make you a bit skeptical about our ability to go marching around the world spreading freedom at the point of an m16.

maybe the humilitating defeat of the lovable little saakashvili, who seems to be even more obtuse and idiotic than bush, will teach the world a lesson? well, there’s always hope but you’ll probably go on reflexively yelling “muchich 1938!” and “september 11!” until the usa is a wholly owned subsidiary of the chinese.

oh, and for the record, the first (yes, the first) country to express condolences and extend aid to the unitd states after 9/11 was…. georgia? no, nope it was “soviet” (you do realize it’s capitalist by now, don’t you?) russia.