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Once upon a time the world knew by heart the risks of appeasement.  The world knew what it meant when a dictator said he would "protect" groups of people of his ethnic background living in other nations at all costs.  Of course the world learned what all of this meant in the wake of WWII.

As of today, a total of four days have passed since the Russian invasion of Georgia.  So you may ask who cares?  Some unknown country is being invaded by the Russians.  It matters because the same thing happened seventy years ago!  We need to remember the past or risk repeating it all over again.

Seventy years ago Germany invaded a little known, and insignificant nation, called Czechoslovakia.  Germany then was the military powerhouse Russia is today.  Why did Hitler's Germany invade this small nation?  Because, as Hitler put it in his eloquent way, the German people there were being oppressed and belonged with Greater Germany.  That is all.  All he wanted he stated was to protect the Germans in the Sudenland.  Ok, said Europe.  Go ahead.  We dont want any more war.  Germany conquered ALL of Czechoslovakia and left it at that.  The West did nothing until Germany invaded Poland, another insignificant nation.

Russia today is proclaiming to protect an ethnic group related to Serbs, the ethnicity of Russians, fro mthe big bad Georgians.  Of course that means they have invaded not just those parts which have the ethnic minority they seek to protect, but as I type this they are proceeding to the capital of Georgia.  Oops.  Well, that kind of stuff happens.  The Russian Prime Minister, Putin, has already made sure that the power of his small group of ex-KGB diehards control Russia and now they want to flex their muscles.

Georgia is a sovereign nation with a Democratically elected governement, which is a lot more than can be said about Russia.  They have supported us with troops in Iraq.  When the rest of the world hated us, Georgia, small as it may be, decided to support our endeavour with troops.  That's saying something coming from such a small nation.

Now the President of Georgia is asking for world help.  We should not turn our backs on this ally.  Nor should we allow this aggression to go unchecked.  This is only the beginning.  Russia will not stop at taking over all of Georgia.  There are plenty of ex-soviet Republics that they would love to control.  And in case this all means nothing to most people, it should be noted that Georgia is FULL of oil.  Yup, Russia, a leading producer of oil - SOMETHING PEOPLE DONT SEEM TO KNOW- just is about to acquire a lot more of the stuff from Georgia. 

Remember Hitler?  One of the main reasons he invaded Russia back in 1941 was to get to the rich oil fields of the Caucuses - the very spot Georgia occupies today.  In fact, gas prices will start going up once again thanks to the Ruskies invasion and only God knows when this rise will stop because the Russians seem intent on staying there.

Dont believe me?  The invasion force seems to be made up of hundreds of tanks and many thousands of soldiers.  Such an invasion force takes time to assemble.  The Russians had been planning this for MONTHS!  Forget diplomacy with their neighbor, what they want is their neighbor period.  It wont stop there.  The World leanred that in 1939 and looks like if we do nothing now, the world will learn that leason again very soon.

AND I need to add one more final thought....as one CNN reporter already mentioned, for YEARS John McCain has talked about looking into Ex-Prime Minister-now silent dictator-Putin's eyes and seeing KGB written all over them.  Reporters would laugh and just set it aside.  Afterall, Bush and most of Congress felt that Putin was a sane agreeable man.  It turns out they were all wrong and McCain was right.  Come November I hope we elect the man who say the potential for such disregard for the sovereignty of a Democracy instead of the man who has no foreign policy experience whatsoever.  The stakes are too high to elect a novice like Senator Obama.  We don't need any apeasement of the Russian bear, and I tell you that when I look into Senator Obama's eyes I see Neville Chamberlain all over again.