[cpdiii]

Says McCain, “I would institute a policy called ‘rogue state rollback.’ I would arm, train, equip, both from without and from within, forces that would eventually overthrow the governments and install free and democratically elected governments

It worked in Afghanistan. We armed the resistance and they drove out the Soviets. We did not lose one man. Unfortunately we did not follow up on Afghanistan after the Soviets were driven out. It then became an enclave of Alqada.

[sobieski]

Some differences: a mountainous, remote country w/o pipelines. Not clear that the Russians will stay in Georgia proper, and not even Georgians will fight for Ossetia or Abkhazia (let alone NATO)

[duckln]

In hind sight, we picked the wrong side, in siding with the mullahs in Afghanistan. We should have been neutral. Then and now, IMO, they are the more dangerous enemy.