There's an excellent piece in today's WSJ by US Senators Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman on how we can't sit still following Russia's aggression in the Caucasus. The Senators have both just come back from a trip to Georgia, Ukraine and Poland, and their analysis is spot on: Russia has laid down the gauntlet and set a challenge to the free world - if we, led by the US, do not take substantive action now, we will pay the price for a long time to come.
Here's a key paragraph, but please do take a look at the entire article if you get a moment:
"Russia's invasion of Georgia represents the most serious challenge to this political order since Slobodan Milosevic unleashed the demons of ethnic nationalism in the Balkans. What is happening in Georgia today, therefore, is not simply a territorial dispute. It is a struggle about whether a new dividing line is drawn across Europe: between nations that are free to determine their own destinies, and nations that are consigned to the Kremlin's autocratic orbit."
