[Crazieman]

Typical Dick Morris over the top rhetoric.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Yesterday I thought Bush and Putin had agreed to let Russia deal with Georgia, the US to deal with Iran.

Today I am not so sure, perhaps this is a signal from Russia for the US to NOT deal with Iran.

Will Turkey mobilize as a threat?

[mass55th]

Has that moron Obama made any statements on any of this, or is he too busy raising campaign funds and visiting his typical white grandmother who lives under the bus?

[muawiyah]

I thought we beat him up on this question last night.

The deal is that South Ossitia is full of Russians. Just one of those little border anomalies not taken care of at the time the breakup of the USSR.

Again the Russian Army demonstrated it ain't what it used to be (if it ever was) by going in and blowing up the Russians first.

[MNJohnnie]

Wrong analogy, this is the Anschluss.

[MNJohnnie]

NATO should speed consideration of Georgia’s application for admission and should extend its security umbrella to include the struggling democracy.

Too late Dicky, NATO is not going to expand it's charter to a nation all ready attacked. However, it might do to expand NATO to cover the rest of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. If NATO had quit dragging it's feet out of fear of Russia, Georgia would all ready be in NATO and this would never of happened.

[AU72]

Springtime for Putin and Russia, winter for Georgia.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

This invasion must not be allowed to stand or, at the very least, it must be contained to South Ossetia and not allowed to lap over into the rest of Georgia.

Too late.

[scouse]

On August 7, 2008, Vladimir Putin’s armies marched into South Ossetia, a part of Georgia. Russia said it was responding to separatist demands from the large Russian population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Russia.

Putin has never forgiven us for what we did to them in Afghanistan. We can look on this as the continuation of Charlie Wilson's War.

[toddlintown]

Bush takes a weekend in another country;

Putin takes a country in a weekend.

[The_Reader_David]

NATO invaded Yugoslavia, now Russia invades Georgia.

Sorry, but the precedent for this is U.S. Slavophobic policy in the Balkans.

Russia at least has the sense to invade on behalf of its own clients. We trashed the relevant parts of international law on behalf of Al Qaeda clients.

[Bobalu]

[Thomas1016]

Make no mistake that the Russians have their sights set firmly in taking over Georgia. The black Sea which Georgia borders has huge un tapped oil reserves that Russia I am sure seeks to controle as much as they can. For years now Russia has been seeking to use their vast oil and gas fields to controle their neigbors. They were not happy about the fact that Georgia had a major oil pipeline running through their country to the Black Sea. Plus it makes the smaller former soviet states think twice about joining NATO. I suspect they might have a problem though with the Ukraine it’s a much more vast country that had a very large portion of the military bases and weapon stockpiles when the soviet Union went under including nuclear weapons. Though I heard they let the Russians remove the ICBM’S. Who is to say they didn’t keep a few tacticle nukes.