"We have cards"

Charles Krauthammer, in a piece titled "Russia needs a wakeup call," perfectly embodies the batshit silliness of the McCain/neocon response to what must be WWIX by now:

President Bush could cash in on his close personal relationship with Putin by sending him a copy of the highly entertaining (and highly fictionalized) film "Charlie Wilson's War" to remind Vlad of our capacity to make Russia bleed. Putin would need no reminders of the Georgians' capacity and long history of doing likewise to invaders.

"Vlad?" "Make Russia bleed?"

In the previous paragraph he called for Bush to support a Saakashvilli government in exile. Cue La Marseillaise! Our new De Gaulle!

Every event is the single greatest existential threat since the Cuban Missile Crisis (and imagine if McCain was faced with something like that -- we'd still be poking around the smoking ruins). Because this is THE MOMENT he's been waiting for.