HIS GRANDIOSITY ON DISPLAY  —  John McCain says: “My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.  This is an act of aggression.”  —  Let's run-down the list.  Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, followed by the US expulsion of Iraq from Kuwait.

THAT WORD “CRISIS" DOES NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS, SENATOR.... Apparently John McCain thinks the Russian invasion of Georgia is “the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.”  This is, pretty obviously, factually wrong, since you could trot out the Gulf War …

Rice Presses for Pullout as Georgia Signs Cease-Fire  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was there to see Georgia sign a cease-fire agreement with Russia on Friday and then declared that all Russian troops must leave Georgian territory immediately.  —  Ms. Rice, who was in Georgia …

Russia: Poland risks attack because of US missiles  —  MOSCOW - A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.