Obviously, your hatred of PJB renders you unable to read. Pat has been warning a) that Russia won’t allow Georgia into NATO; b) that they have the cards in that Georgia doesn’t control its own provinces; and c) we won’t fight for Georgia.
He’s not excusing the invasion. He correctly predicted it as well as our response: Lots of hot air but zero steps. Georgia will be dismembered, and we can’t do anything about it.
So instead of a column offering harsh criticism of a Russian invasion, the same way he offered harsh criticism of a US invasion of Iraq, he writes a column of “I told you so, shouldn’t mess with Russia.”
Fact is, he offered far more criticism of the US removal of a tyrannical thug dictator than he has offered of Russia for the invasion of a capitalist, democratic country.
Pat has joined the hate America first crowd. Too bad, I think he used to actually like the US.