And Georgia was bombing the crap out of South Ossetia.

People can twist their rationales to fit their agendas all they want, but that doesn't change the ultimate truth of the situation, which is that the US, the UK, and the coalition of the coerced don't care about sovereign territorial integrity when it suits their purposes not to. And I think that for the people in Iraq and Afghanistan whose countries have been completely destroyed by the US, the UK, and the coalition of the coerced, such niceties are probably not foremost in their minds.

The truth of what is happening is that the US (and by extension the UK) are waging wars of imperial conquest over small relatively defenseless countries, for reasons of global hegemony and control of resources.

The thing that will change this equation will be the emergence of other large powers, one of which is still Russia, regardless of what the US might think about that.

Personally, I'm all for having some balance of power again. The US is no better than any other despicable despot when it's holding all the cards.