While Russian troops continue to pound Georgia with bombs, rockets, tanks and troops, the free world flaps at the gums. Congress, away on vacation to duck the energy issue, is not even in Washington to provide the traditional wringing of hands and finger-pointing. Bush, Rice and Gates stand in the Rose Garden and announce they are sending a plane full of "humanitarian supplies" to Georgia and they sternly warn Russia to let it land....As if to say, "Or else!"
Or else what? First of all, the humanitarian aid is probably going to get confiscated by the Russians as soon as it lands; their troops are already storming Gori, regardless of their pledges to cease fire. And then, as history will show, Russia is not likely to honor any promises it makes until it is damned good and ready to. In fact, history will show that the Georgian exercise is most likely just a ramp up and training exercise for future actions to re-consolidate the Soviet Union and further, that this was a Russian test of the will and ability of the free world to respond.
And here we sit, impotently flapping at the gums while the tanks roll on. What else can we do?
We have a decidedly weak President and administration that has royally screwed up in Iraq and maybe Afghanistan, we have a war-weary military stretched beyond thin with a budget to match, we are faced with Islamic Terrorism at every turn, and we have lost so much stature in the rest of the world that no one is really willing to step up to the plate and support us.
So, I guess the real question of the day is not what we're going to do about Georgia, or the Ukraine or anything else. The real question of the day is whether or not that child belongs to Edwards or not.
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