Before You Get Your War On

I expected that the Russia-Georgia confrontation would bring out some warmongering pronouncements from old men eager to spill young blood, but I didn’t realize that so many would lose all sense of perspective and reality over it.

So try to ignore these fools who seem to so desperately want us back in military confrontation with Russia, and learn a bit about the moving parts yourself. There is no clear and easy answer, and the facts on the ground keep changing. But reading up through the linked articles here and here would be a good start to your understanding of it.