Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?
By Robert Scheer —
Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?

Overhyping Georgia
byMatthew Yglesias
The war between Russia and Georgia which appears -- mercifully -- to have ended is, of course, a searing experience for the small republic that provoked, and then badly lost, it.
But the majority of rhetoric about the conflict has been overheated. And having frittered away the past seven years on a foreign policy driven by hubris, the United States can ill-afford to misplace its priorities.