What Happens When Another Country's Leader is Smarter Than Ours

So Russia is now invading part of Georgia. Bush is condemning the Russian move, but he's doing nothing to stop them. He has ordered humanitarian aid dropped, so that's good. But why would Russia invade Georgia? Vlad Putin (more on my thoughts of why we are treating him like the leader later) calmly explained that like in Iraq, there was tyranny and a history of the current government systematically killing off a certain ethnic group, so force was needed to bring peace and security to the region for fear that violence could spread, hurting Russia's security on their side of the border. Wow, sounds a lot like Bush's case for invading Iraq except he didn't claim the country had stuff there that isn't.

Because of Bush's foolishness America is in a position where their military, already spread thin, is confronted with an attack on a democratic country and for all intents and purposes, is pretty impotent in stopping their "friend" from taking back countries that splintered off from Russia during the demise of the U.S.S.R. This is what you get when you treat a strong man of a big country like a friend despite warning signs that Russia was biding it's time and taking plays from the Neoconservatives like false flag wars, labeling any political opponents, groups, (or weak governments) as terrorists and the biggest warning sign of all when Putin didn't really step down, but named a successor who pretty much let's him remain the de facto president. Thanks Bush for rolling America back into the freaking cold war! /sarcasm off.

Maybe this is simpler than I'm making it out to be. Maybe, like the Iraq war, the invasion of Georgia is just a strategic land grab to control access to ever growing important resources, oil and natural gas.

Maybe it's simpler still. Putin back-stabbed Bush for power. Sad that Bush and the media still treats Putin like a legit leader while he's running a show with a puppet president who plays second fiddle as far as who Bush talks about when he's supposed to be talking to "the leader" of Russia. I thought Bush didn't engage/coddle/harbor/whatever other rhetorical big talk he's used to describe authoritarian dictators. Ever since the puppet guy's election, that is what Bush has done. Just watch the insipid interview he did with Bob Costas when asked about Russia. You'd still think Putin legitimately was the president of the country unless you listen carefully. We just have to wait and see how far up our country's ass his shoe is going to go I guess.

Worse yet, China may not talk much, but they are always paying attention. Think the Chinese may attempt to flex their muscles? How would they choose to do so? Economically since we owe them lotsa money. They could "liberate" Taiwan. Send another hit on the Tibetan monks to let them know who's boss. Probably a combination with a few suprises the Chinese have sat on.

I'm not done yet. If you're a conspiracy theory oriented person, (I know you're not, Puce), Bush could have asked or let this slide for on the down low, to scare on the fence voters to fall onto the McCain side. 'Terrorists really don't scare people like they used to. We need a new threat. I got it, resurrect the U.S.S.R. threat. We don't know all that much about them. They have nukes. g.o.p. really needs to win. Gotta do it.' The g.o.p. and this administration has been so deceitful that I really do consider some sort of arrangement not that far out there. War is the reason Bush got a second term.