The war in Georgia

Greetings my esteemed opponent. I wish you the best of luck and look forward to an exciting and inviting round. There are three main premises that i would like to present today. 1. Georgia cannot defend itself 2. Russia knows this and was already planning to invade 3. Western influence is the only way to stop the war. First let's take a look at exactly what happened. South Ossetia is primarily russian. This happened a while ago while it was under russian control. South Ossetia didn't want to be Georgian so it seceeded to russia. Georgia didn't like this so it invaded South Ossetia to regain control. Russia hurried to "help" the South Ossetians fend off the Georgian army and went a step further by invading Georgia. This is what the western powers that be have a problem with. I understand that you are specifically talking about America, so I shall limit myself to America as well. Let's go to my first premise. This one is pretty easy to understand and believe. Georgia is a minor state that cannot defend against a major power like russia. Hopefully there are no arguments here. The second premise is where I imagine a lot of the argumentation will happen. Russia was already planning on invading Georgia before the aid was sent to South Ossetia. Before helping South Ossetia fend off the Georgians, the russian military was found exercising just inside their borders (it's amazing what can happen when we use the satellites you were talking about.) After they invaded Georgia, we realized that it was the exact same thing they were practicing before they were involved. This means that russia had no intention of ever just helping South Ossetia. They were practicing their invasion into Georgia. This is all over the news and articles about this war so if you haven't heard this then I suggest you start to do a little research. It shouldn't take long to find it. Go to BBC or FOX News or CNN even wikipedia if you want. Now you say that we should stay out of it because Russia could kick our A**. What you don't realize is that Russia is not in good standing with the world community. Most of the western powers like france, england, usa, etc... don't like it when a big power is picking on a little power. Take the example of Iraq and Kuwait. The same applies here. So the international community is going to put pressure on Russia to withdraw it's troops. They are already doing so. In fact, Russia has said that their troops were going to have been withdrawn already. But as it turns out, they keep saying that they will withdraw them later and later. So without any forces of the U.S.A. or another western power in their, they are already making progress. If the USA should send troops in, this would show the russians the seriousness with which we are taking the situation. This would speed along the withdrawal of troops and stop the war. Without that though, the russians will continue to stall like they are already doing. Now you say that we don't have the manpower to do this. While we may have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, we still have troops back home. In fact, both presidential candidates are promising an influx of troops into Iraq. This means that we could use those troops to go to Georgia. If America does this, we will have the backing of the international community which will more than likely result in some UN peacekeepers and other multinational forces. So this shows how my third premise is true. The only way for Russia to back away is to have a physical presence in Georgia.