In a recent campaign stop, McCain told the crowd that he had recently spoken to Georgia's embattled president, Mr. Saakashvili. In an attempt to burnish his foreign policy credentials at a time when Obama was cooling off with shaved ices in his native Hawaii, McCain did not mince words with his tough guy rhetoric towards Russia. He referred to Saakashvili as an old friend, and communicated to him on the behalf of all Americans that "we are all Georgians now".

Did I hear that wrong? Excuse me? Who is a Georgian? Unless Atlanta is burning, Americans are not "all Georgians now". McCain, you do not speak for me, and neither do you speak for the vast majority of Americans who did not know that Georgia the nation even existed until this past weekend.

I have a problem with McCain's tough talk because it is opportunistic, irresponsible and frankly, it is a way for him to score points without facing any consequences. It is a dangerous place to pull our politics and also to mislead the public. McCain's response to the Georgian conflict would've brought us close to war with Russia, and over what? Georgia is useless to the United States, it is amongst the least important allied states that we have. If McCain has not noticed, we already have our military tangled up in Iraq and Afghanistan, and if he would have it, quite possibly in Iran too. And this bozo wants us to take on Russia? The same Russia that has a geographic area three times the United States, over 10,000 nuclear warheads and a modern and powerful military?

In this conflict, Russia holds the cards and not the US. The US and the feeble eunuchs we call our European allies, are not going to do anything except for some world class whining and bluffing. The fact is, we don't have any business in Georgia and much of our actions in the past decade or so has been extremely irresponsible in regards to the kind of relationship we have been building with them and other ex-Soviet states. Russia is a major world power, and especially under Putin, it has gotten its house in order and is clearly signaling that it expects to be treated like an equal. The United States has gone too far in trying to recruit states such as Georgia and Ukraine into an anti-Russian alliance (NATO), and has not displayed any form of respect or humility towards Russia. Also lest I forget, it was Georgia, not Russia, that started this most recent conflict. So there is absolutely no reason for the US to sacrifice its own interests and resources, especially when this is a place where Russia will not back down.

On a side note, Bush recently told Russia that "bullying and intimidation is not foreign policy". The reason why the world no longer takes seriously American moral superiority is because American politicians like to preach and not practice. Perhaps Bush had forgotten that the US is occupying two nations right now, and also if our treatment of Iran does not constitute bullying, I don't know what does. The wind coming from Washington seems to be getting louder and louder, but what's new?