This was posted by an American reader as a comment on this very blog but I felt it was well said and should be given more visability so here it is:

I agree that more needs to be done; having a much larger and more publicized contingent of foreign envoys to occupy Tbilisi immediately with the President and act as a human diplomatic blockade/witness to the injustice would help, along with an instant call for economic sanctions targeting Russia.  With oil prices subsiding temporarily we as a world community can adjust world demand away from Russian oil and gas and create new lines of supply to those who will need altternate fuels.  As we are evidently unwilling to commit troops, we need to give the Georgian people assurance that their peaceful resistance to make the takeover of Tbilisi and Georgia unmanageable for Russia will draw real encouragement and support from more active allies, including notably the US and the UK.  If they could band together for Afghanistan and Iraq, why not Georgia? Otherwise Ukraine and all of the bordering states will be next in line for this brutality, and anyone abroad or in the US Congress  who will not join in this effort NOW, before it is effectively too late within a day ot two, with Gerogia’s President, dead, in prison or, at best, in exile. Surely those who withhold support from Georgia in their hour of need deserve the sternest treatment from a coalition - and not by making them eat Stolichnaya fries.

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