Bravery?? you sound like a child.
What brave thing did you expect him to do?
Punch the little creep out?
Hey, its easy to shout "bravery" to someone when they are 4,000 miles away, but perhaps you believe that our fine men should have gone into yet another 3rd world hellhole to save that part of the world from itself again.
Putin is a cowardly little twit - Let him invade some country that has a organized army of more than say, a few hundred men. - Like Afganistan for example - oh, that's right - already got his ass kicked out of there by the tribes.
Children have a greater propensity for honesty so lets be honest about it. He could have made a stronger stance on Georgia, he didn't.
Putin was snickering at the West knowing full well NATO would do nothing.
"Like Afganistan for example - oh, that's right - already got his ass kicked out of there by the tribes."
Are you sure of your time lines here? I am pretty confident that Putin was not running the Soviet Union at this time, with that said, they did get their asses handed to them... with our support of course but then we messed it up by allowing the Taliban to fester and give birth to Al-Qaeda. We need to follow through better next time.