They are probably afraid to move more troops out, because then only the youths will be left withing the country
The Europeans are not to be relied on for much. Consider that Russia believes (maybe correctly) that it has them by the b@lls since they depend a lot on Russian natural gas. The Europeans seem to subscribe to that belief as well, indicating that any real action from them will be nigh miraculous (although I am certain we will hear of very nicely worded speeches).
As for your comment on Britain, they are actually the current reigning champ in terms of being surrender monkeys. This is in both in domestic and foreign incidents. In the domestic front they are biting their nails in a rush to turn London into a moslem stan (now police dogs have to wear boots, they apologize for having black puppies on posters, even straight pointed kitchen knives may be banned, beat up a thug and you could go to jail, etc). They have become a sissy-state.
On the foreign front it is just as bad ....British sailors got KIDNAPPED by Iran, and their comrades in multi-million pound Destroyers could only watch! Imagine what would have happened had the Iranians tried to kidnap some US Navy sailors ....they would have been blown to their 72 virgins! They tried the same thing on the French (who are becoming the real champions of Europe) and were fended off easily.
Britain is not the same land of Churchill.
Please wake up. Take a look at a map. This is no where near their back yard. Not even the U.S. is going to bring forces into direct military contact with the Russians and especially not over Georgia. The Russians are after specific goals and not looking to occupy the whole of Georgia.
Well I can't really answer your question but I can report on a short BBC blurb on the subject that ran on Sunday evening.
The comments were by some gal who sounded like a Left Coast Lib and were carried on BBC's World Broadcast (or something like that). The main point of the commentary was that it was up to the U.S. to do something about the Russian invasion (on the diplomatic front, of course) but that was no longer possible because the Americans had lost the "moral high ground" by their foolish invasion of Iraq.
I expect this idea to gain widespread acceptance by the Left over the next few days and weeks. Everything is Bush's fault and the Iraq War is the cause of all problems. We will hear a hint of it from Obama soon. Count on it.