The Fruits Of Bush Foreign Policy.

From McClatchy's Jonathan Landay we learn the Bush administration knew this was going to happen and did nothing.  Our President has led a powerless foreign policy that is full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

A "parade" of U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, visited Tbilisi to urge Saakashvili to avoid giving the Kremlin to act, a State Department officials said.

At the same time, U.S. officials said that they believed they had an understanding with Russia that any response to Georgian military action would be limited to South Ossetia.

"We knew they were going to go crack heads. We told them again and again not to do this," the State Department official said. "We thought we had an understanding with the Russians that any response would be South Ossetia-focused. Clearly it's not."

I'm not sure we have any role to play but as the only world superpower, we talk and it means nothing to the rest of the world.