Hitching Our Wagon to Saakashvili

The massive protests in Georgia should serve as a fairly good reminder that the West should be far more parsimonious with its security blanket.

During the Russian-Georgian war, we were frequently told that Georgia deserved our support because she was a democracy. Yet according to Gallop, many Georgians are disaffected with their democratic institutions:

None of this means that Georgia should therefore become a Russian satellite state. But just how much U.S. credibility and prestige should we be putting on the line?