A few comments:

I have a much better impression of McCain-Palin team, than Obama-Biden team, and even if Biden has more experience than Obama, US doesn't quite work like Russia. I still have to read more on Biden. So far the only shortcoming I saw of McCain and Palin is that McCain didn't actively press on the Darfur issue as much as both Obama and Biden. Palin and Biden are about level on emphasis on education, an area that by now I care more than military or any war. Otherwise, Palin rates way higher as a person, even with Governor governing, than all candidates combined.

Read more news about Iran. Here is something that I would like to add: as far as I know, Israel has never ever attacked Iran. Nor has Israel even supported Iran's enemies, such as Iraq during the First (actual First) Persian Gulf War of 1980-1988 between Iraq and Iran. Just about every industrialized country in the world, except Israel, gave support to Iraq when it fought Iran.
So, even though Israel has never attacked Iran in any way, Iran has been attacking Israel through Hizb-Allah, even arming it with long range rockets. I don't suppose they need *long* range rockets to hit opposing factions in Lebanon, no, it's meant for Israel.

So, merely based on the fact that Israel never attacked Iran, yet Iran continually attacked Israel through Hizb-Allah, Israel can legitimately strike at Iran anytime. Even without the nuclear issue.


Oprah, if there has been that many requests to host Sarah Palin on your show, and you don't want to do it for politics, then what happened to you wanting to be an example to women? Isn't Sarah Palin an exemplary woman who achieved success by going to college and then working her way up? And she did it by her own excellence and studying and campaigning, without coming from an "aristocratic" family who is already involved in power. Isn't that the kind of success you are trying to encourage among women and girls, and especially African American girls?
Or, do you want to send a message of: it's OK to exclude people, even very successful people, if they are of the wrong race/beliefs?
Isn't that exactly you have been fighting against, including the establishment of your show and most of your life? Please, don't undo a lifetime activism of equal-opportunity.


On Georgia, well, and this is a serious and well-meant comment. Israel didn't stay Israel by merely establishing democracy, and establish relations with the U.S.
Everyone is trained for war in Israel. In order to be "Israel" anywhere, that essential quality has to be present as well.
I would like to invoke a bit of history. The hundred thousand American and more Filipino troops who fought to the death on Corregidor and Bataan, FDR let them die. Please read up on it. I mean, those were Allies plus American citizen-soldiers.
So, next time, don't assume U.S. support on anything, the U.S. often like to invoke its 18th and 19th century honorable image as PR, while in practice it does the contradiction of, and many people in high power (often non-visible powerful people) are only interested in being more adept at crooking people. Next time join NATO first, before doing anything that would require NATO or US support. And even then (even with a treaty), if not 100% of Georgian are trained for war and armed, then make sure a NATO base or an American airbase is built in Georgia, with perhaps 100 NATO soldiers in the base, then you can assume NATO/US support.

If you want to dissuade Russia from invading again,
-arm each Georgian with a rifle, plus a bayonet,
-monthly live firing practice, each Georgian citizen a marksman (able to hit a dime at 300 yards)
-one anti-tank rocket and one anti-air rocket per household (say, one Javelin and one Stinger)
-instruct each city block and each village on how to booby-trap everything, plus ambush techniques on Russian convoys (for example, let a Russian convoy pass through the middle of the village or city street, then fire a rocket at the lead vehicle, fire a rocket at the trail vehicle, trapping the convoy in between, and pour in the fire)
-Plenty supply of Molotov cocktail, and how to make them
-each citizen pledge to kill at least 10 Russian before he/she is killed

That, plus the established democracy and US relations, would make Georgia the "Israel of the Caucasus". There is a reason the Arabs haven't invaded Israel since 1973, and it's not because of laziness.

And, I add, Georgians, next time, don't play "Top Gun" and "Full Metal Jacket" on TV. Just because it's American (especially American way of war) doesn't mean it's good. For one thing, Russia will always outnumber you in airplanes, that's for sure. So it's much better to be bristling with anti-air missiles. And then, Vietnam War was U.S. dumbly fighting a war by industrial capacity and lost it anyway.

Here are the movies you should be playing, and in peacetime, so that by wartime you'll be used to it. Well, first I'd like to mention a few countries.
In WWII, there is only one country USSR didn't dare invade, or should I say, didn't dare invade beyond the borderlands. It's Finland. The Winter War of 1939-1940, Finland did spectacularly, with a tiny groups of soldiers stopping nearly the entire Red Army, inflicting several hundred thousand casualties, for tens of thousands of their own.
In WWII, Hitler didn't invade Spain, though he wanted to. Hitler didn't invade Switzerland, though twice there were plans to do it. Because the Spaniards fought most ferociously, including "Division Azul" the Blue Division, on the Eastern Front. The Swiss, though a tiny little country, has each citizen armed and trained, with firearm in the house at all times.
Finland, Spain, Switzerland, none of those country had nukes.

So, here are the movies I recommend on Georgian TV:
Jesus (any of the Jesus movie, important for meaning in life, and spiritual strength =)
300
The 300 Spartans
Talvisota (Finn, 1989, Among top 5 best war movies I've ever seen, most intense battle scenes, way better than either Top Gun or Full Metal Jacket, can be translated in Georgian)
Tali-Ihantala 1944 (Finn, 2007, lavishly made war movie about Finland's Continuation War/WWII against USSR, with extremely detailed historical realism, and even more intense than Talvisota)
Letters from Iwo Jima
Red Dawn
Black Hawk Down
The Predator (it has to do with mud triumphing over a high-tech beast)
The Beast of War (a U.S.-made war movie about Russians in Afghanistan)
9 ROTA (9th Company, a Russian-made war movie about Russians in Afghanistan)
Animal Farm (if it has been made into a movie, it's a parody of Soviet Communism)
Any Eastern Europe movie about fighting Soviets or Communism

You are a small country without the industries of the U.S. or the trade of Israel, so don't expect to fight like in the U.S. movies. Russia can, you can't.

There is a reason (already mentioned) Germany didn't invade Switzerland, and it was neither because of its democracy, nor because there was an American embassy there. And Switzerland didn't have nuclear weapons.