Links, 8-14-2008

• Charles Krauthammer:  How to Stop Putin.  "The Russia-Georgia cease-fire brokered by France's president is less than meets the eye."  But only because the Russian troops are still moving.
• Senator John McCain:  We Are all Georgians.  "The Georgian people have suffered before, and they suffer today."  *nodding*
• President Mikheil Saakashvili:  Russia's War Is the West's Challenge.  "The Russian leadership cannot be trusted -- and this hard reality should guide the West's response."  Yes, and probably.
• Victor Davis Hanson:  Brave Old World.  "Brace yourself -- we may be on our way back to an old world, where the strong do as they will, and the weak suffer as they must."  Back to (a state of) nature.
• Dodge Billingsley:  Politics Is Local.  "The truth is, both the Ossetians and Abkhazians are happy to side with Moscow."  Interesting counterpoint from a long-time student of Georgia's military.