This isn’t a dedux of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the sense that Bush doesn’t have to worry about ‘who blinks first’. It’s not that kind of crisis. Instead, there is a clear response indicated, and that is, we take out their SS-21’s before they can do any mischief, end-of-story.
We expel their diplomats, end-of-story.
We declare our solidarity with the people of Georgia, and pledge our intention to come to their aid in this time of peril and invasion from a foreign state, END-OF-STORY.
Europe also needs to act because this is in their backyard.