Russia acknowledged that Georgian forces had shot down two Russian warplanes, while a senior Georgian official said the Georgians had destroyed 10 Russian jets.
The US has truckloads of current combat active forces just to the south and relatively speaking just as close.
What with the resources that are in the immediate area running every form of surveillance known to man and undoubtedly under constant spy sat observation the US can rat out every time the SO's and Russians pee. It would not take much on the part of the Americans in the area to "convince" the Russians that moving into Georgia proper would not be wise.
Are you advocating a war with Russia in support of Georgia? Under what treaty obligations are we bound to defend them against a thermonuclear power? With our military stretched to the limit in Afghanistan and Iraq, where are we going to find the ground troops to take on this somewhat arduous task? Most importantly, why would we want to stick our nose into a conflict that doesn’t appear to involve fighting terrorists or threatens our national security interests?