Dept of Revoltin' Developments: Georgia

Boy what a fiasco in Georgia. Russia has blustered its way into a smaller country claiming that it's coming to the rescue of the South Ossetians from a despotic Georgian president a la Hussein. It's showed nothing but ineptitude in taking over the country (ostensibly) with aging equipment and an unprofessional army that resembles more the S. Ossetian militias that lick their boots. It's lying much like in the days of Stalin, yesing the West to death while doing precisely what it wants. Now, the Georgians are not Chechens, but look for Chechen-like warfare on Russia in the weeks to come. Bombings in Moscow, etc. I guess Russia will learn like the U.S. that invading a country in the style of "back in the day" works for a while. But then the insurgents come out of the woodwork, get organized, and start popping the invaders in little skirmishes here and there. Humiliating a country might be fun, but at some point, it'll have to pay for the bullying.

Meanwhile, Europe does nothing. Sure, you can say, Where's the U.S.? But this is Europe's issue in which to take the lead. So it will be interesting to see how they handle it. No doubt the strategy will be appeasment, appeasment, appeasment. Putin will do what he wants. NATO has already showed its hand in a feckless "statement." The world will watch, shake its head in quiet frustration and hope that in the words of MLK, "the moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."