Apparently, President Saak.... was having problems at home running a corrupt regime, jailing his opponents, giving out concessions to his relatives. He may have thought that a good genocidal invasion would take people's minds off their problems. He'll either be in New York or Moscow this time next year.

sowing his inexperience and backed by Bolton and Vice Dick:

McCain condemnation upstages Bush

John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, on Monday upstaged George W. Bush's administration over the Georgia crisis with his strongest statement so far calling on the US and its allies to come together in "universal condemnation of Russian aggression".[.]

Others picked up a by now familiar pattern of division and confusion within the administration, which has suffered a depletion of senior personnel and is entering its final months in office. "This crisis is a watershed moment that demands an exceptionally high quality of diplomacy and it is not clear whether this tired and distracted US administration is able to provide that," said Sarah Mendelson, senior Russia fellow at Washington's Centre for Strategic and International Security.

Mr McCain's response, which included recommended policy actions for the administration, has also enabled his campaign to restate its support for a "league of democracies", which would exclude Russia and include countries such as Georgia. Mr McCain pointed out at the weekend that Russia's membership of the United Nations Security Council had prevented that body from taking any "meaningful action".

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

Right now the Russians are systematically destroying all those radar and weapons systems the U.S. sold them, are destroying military bases, and the roads and bridges between Georgia and the breakaways. Regime change? Hell, let the Georgians deal with what's left. What I'm curious about is whether the Russian claim of recovered American bodies (read: CIA trainers) is true. And if so, where were they recovered, Georgia or South Ossetia? Maybe they taught the Georgians how to throw hand grenades into basements.

Now the US ambassador to the UN is on. (Why can't they get someone who speaks English without an accent?) He was very muted and reasonable sounding, with absolutely no saber rattling. Thank God Bolton is out!

So: the reporting was utterly slanted, but judging from the ambassador's remarks, the administration is giving no hint of treating this like an international crisis, which is a relief, but not unexpected. Like I said, US foreign policy tends to be rational, except where Israel is involved. The administration is probably beginning to realize that the Georgian government is a bunch of jokers.

No I think shutting about Iranian Nukes will be Russia's price to settle for Abkhazia and S. Ossetia instead of re-conquering Georgia.