Obama is too polite to give McCain what he deserves.

He should say. OK tough guy, lets make this election about who wants to get in a shooting war in Russia. Either tell us how you would win such a war or shut up! McCain's time has passed. The neocons have lost. Its just that the New York Times and William Kristol don't know that yet. There are two superpowers again and Russia's energy reserves are a hell of a lot more powerful weapon than anything the had as Soviets. The European Union will be another super power, China and India are coming up fast.

McCain, wants Georgia to join NATO, The UK and Germany don't want to sign a treaty where Some petty dictator in a two bit back water can pull them into World War Three.

McCain wants to kick Russia out of G8 and bar them from WTO. Russia needs only to use its energy to get open trade with Europe, China and India. God help us if they turn the fuel in their bombs into nuclear power. They can sell their caviar and titanium to those countries. Maybe they will build airframes partnering with one of the Asian tigers for electronics.

If McCain wants to continue Bush's path, restarting the cold war, he's not going to have the easy time Reagan did.