Russia’s brutal invasion of Georgia caught America off guard. But it did give voters an idea of what to expect from a President McCain or a President Obama, and right now the differences are stark. John McCain understood just what was happening and called it right on the first shot.

“Russian military forces crossed an internationally recognized border into the sovereign territory of Georgia,” he said as the news broke. “The very existence of independent Georgia — and the survival of democratically elected government — are at stake.”

He was blasted by pundits as being too extreme, but events now show he was right. McCain grasped the regional implications, too.


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