this is serious ...

The United States is providing Humanitarian Aid to Georgia and, although very quick to clarify that the aid is humanitarian in nature, and not, as Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili asserted, to protect Georgia's airports and ports, has also said that "we'll certainly protect our assets if we need to."  Oh sweet jesus we are going to war.   But we can't go to war because we don't have the troops, which is maybe one reason to be possibly grateful that we're already fighting two wars (one unnecessary, one almost forgotten but for the pesky little detail that it gets worse every day). 

And now,  McCain is sending his two surrogates to the region... Joe Lieberman (yes he must go!) and Lindsay Graham.  Is it just me or is this kind of swash-buckling braggadocio just a little bit too much like overkill?  Will I hear folks out on the campaign trail this fall saying, "well, I'd vote for Barack but McCain did send Lindsay Graham and Joe Lieberman to Georgia."  Call me crazy, but I don't think so.  

I'm listening to McCain say this is no time for partisanship and I'm watching him rubbing his hands with glee, stretching his muscle, determined to show us all how he would show the Russians if he was president.  Sadly for him, he would do exactly what our current president is doing, and has done over the past seven years.  Look Putin in the eye and see his soul.  Look Putin in the eye and see the KGB. 

Hopefully some time soon, someone will look Putin in the eye and actually see something useful.