[eastforker]

The only other alternative without going head to head with Russia would be to establich a flying armada over the pipeline to protect it from destruction, then again, if one of them was to get shot down??????????????? I think we definately need the Turks involved if possible.

[Jeff Head]

I think the Turks would back whatever we did...maybe not go it alone at this point, but they would back us up.

But we will hvae to lead.

It is way outside their interests economically, militarily, and politically to see the Bear gobble up Georgia and come that much closer to them...and in the process destroy the economics they are building in the region.