It's probably a good thing the US military is over-extended in the Middle East.
Sort of reminds me of Iraq and Kuwait. Georgia certainly has a claim on the territory, as did Iraq on Kuwait.
And it certainly doesn't seem that the Georgians have air superiority over their own territory. That bodes ill for any chance they may have had to prevail militarily over Russia. However, GWB could conceivably offer American airpower to them.
Wouldn't that be a mess.
Arf