Sometimes doing something *now* is better than doing the best thing sometime in the future. Besides, how do you know we *don't* have a plan for a situation such as this?
We need to act quickly though, whatever we plan on doing. Congress will be back from recess soon.
I don’t disagree with you. Have they signed the cease fire yet? They almost certainly will.
If they don’t soon, THEN take action or if Russia states it is to stay in Georgia and reoccupy, then take action. Russians will withdraw BUT most certainly will be back to fully dominate and control the country. After this skirmish Georgia may be considered a Democracy in name but become a puppet State.
The USA must go hugely energy independent now. Then we can create a new Cold War2 strategy.