I don’t always agree with Pat Buchanan, but I usually get something beneficial out of his point of view. Humanevents.com has an article by Buchanan about the situation between Georgia and Russia that is worth a read:
“Mikheil Saakashvili’s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia’s invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.
Nasser’s blunder cost him the Sinai in the Six-Day War. Saakashvili’s blunder probably means permanent loss of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.” …
