In the LA Times, Max Boot outlines a course of action:
The West must demand that Russia withdraw its troops from all of Georgia’s soil, possibly to be replaced in South Ossetia and Abkhazia with international peacekeepers. If the Kremlin won’t comply, the West should respond with sanctions such as withdrawing ambassadors from Moscow, kicking Russia out of the Group of 8 leading industrialized nations and freezing Russian bank accounts abroad We should also do more to help Georgia defend itself. Sending American troops is out of the question, but we can send American equipment. That’s what we did in 1973 when Israel appeared on the verge of losing the Yom Kippur War, and it is a favor we should extend to our embattled ally in the Caucasus. The greatest bang for the buck would come from two inexpensive hand-held missiles: the Stinger to destroy Russian aircraft and the Javelin to destroy tanks. Pictures of long columns of Russian vehicles advancing slowly down winding mountain roads indicate that a few well-placed missiles could wreak havoc with their operations.
