Remind me again...which countries comprise the Axis of Evil?

I'm not an expert on Russian affairs - so I can be forgiven for being a bit blind-sided by Russia's recent aggression against its former satellite. Though this is certainly not Bush's fault, it is just another example of something happening on Bush's watch that seemed to come out of left field. But what about Condi? After all, isn't Russian affairs her area of expertise? How is it that Georgia, a U.S. supported country vying for entry into NATO, with an American-educated leader, is being violated by one of our alleged allies and we seem to be caught completely unawares?

This is the kind of aggression that defined Russia throughout a great deal of the 20th century, and even as recently as Chechnya. This isn't something with which we are altogether unfamiliar. Yet America seems impotent in trying to intervene on Georgia's behalf. Georgia, is not only a partner in the so-called "war on terror" - but is the only non-Russian controlled oil pipeline through the region. I'm sure the administration hasn't lost sight of this - they did, after all, try to air lift Georgian troops back to the home land. Too bad they are out there with us on the wild goose chase for weapons of mass destruction.

Under Bush's watchful foreign policy eye Iran has moved to the threshold of becoming a nuclear-armed power; Al Q'aida has firmly retrenched in Afghanistan and in the Northern Provinces; Russia is trampling countries threatening her erstwhile Soviet hegemony; and Iraq is in a shambles. And our current foreign policy is as clueless as ever. If ever this country needed to veer as far away from its current foreign policy agenda, it's now. That means no McCain, at any cost.