No, we can’t do everything, although there sure are a lot of people around the world who believe we should, when it suits THEIR needs. And those who feel every time we do what they expect, we’re in the wrong. But what are they doing to stop ANYTHING? Nada.

Appeasement doesn’t appease.

Same situation.

The US should have never intervened in Serbia’s internal affairs in 1999, and definitely should not have agreed to recognizing an independent Kosovo earlier this year.

Whether Georgia is independent of Russia or not is as irrelevant to US national interests as whether or not Catholics in Northern Ireland live under British or Irish rule.

Pat Buchanan is right on this one.

If the democracies of western and southern Europe are so nervous over the re-birth of Russian nationalism and economic might of old Moscovy then let them take the lead.

When the French have Mirages in Tblisi and the Italians have paratroops in Gori and the Germans are landing their marines on the Black Sea coast, then maybe – just maybe – the US should consider playing a junior role in this NATO excercise.

Otherwise, let Europe (never more prosperous or at peace than they are today) defend Europe in the 21st century.

America can’t do it all.

Oh, and can please – please – stop with Third Reich analogies????

Why, oh why, must every foreign policy issue inevitably end up with the “villain” being compared with Adolf Hitler.

Khaddady in Libya, the Ayatollah in Iran, Noriega in Panama, Castro in Havana, Saddam in Iraq, Hugo in Venezuela, Ahmadinejad in Iran, etc etc etc….always with the Hitler comparisons and references to “Munich 1938″.

Good grief.

I remember during the Kosovo-Serbia War of 1999 (a war that never really got a proper name, did it?) the Western press was calling Milosevic “another Hitler” while the Serb and pro-Serb press were calling Clinton, you guessed it, “another Hitler”.

If anything, Mr. Putin is no Hitler, but more a Bismark, if anything.

But I guess drawing comparisons between Georgia in 2008 and Denmark in 1866 wouldn’t raise as many eyebrows as raising the specter of Auschwitz.

The Georgian pres was begging to get into NATO hoping it would buy the USA’s protection…then when it looked like he was not going to get it he pulled the stunt of uprooting civilians.

Unless you want to go kill a few thousand Russian troops and a whack of civilians because Putin is thumbing his nose at America then what’s the purpose?

Some people are NOT worth the trouble and President Saakashvili is one of them.

The Georgian people are screwed.

It’s time to leave Europe to the Europtrash IMO.
But if America MUST DO something they should start bucking up Ukraine.

Drop pallets and pallets of weapons, ammo, night vision, shoulder fired missles, and food to them.

Yeah, I agree there’s a WWIII on the horizon, but it’ll just be an expansion of the one we’ve already been involved in for quite a while, and we just didn’t realize it.

WW III, here we come!