Wake up!

As I predicted earlier, someone poked the sleeping bear. We're just beginning to hear the details, but we do know that the Russian bear has been aroused, and it's attacking Georgia (the former Soviet republic, not the Peach State). What we could have suspected, there's oil involved, and so is the United States, because we have been supporting Georgian democracy.

The country is about half the size of the American Georgia, and if a peace isn't negotiated, Russia will easily overrun the Georgians. They have already almost leveled a city of 30,000, Tskhinvali (a word with at least two extraneous consonants).

President Bush is at the Olympics with Putin, but it appears the real tough talk is coming from John McCain. Because of our friendship with Georgia, their troops comprise the third largest contingent in Iraq, after Great Britain. Let us pray this doesn't end in an armed conflict with Russia, but it would look bad if we abandoned our Georgian friends.