By Jesse Taylor

It strikes one that assailing your political opponent for being a citizen of the world, beset with empty rhetoric and a simpleminded political naivete would be more effective if you weren’t promising blanket national solidarity and commensurate support with another country based on an far-too-aggressive misread of a conflict that’s less than a week old.

But who am I to talk? Merely another Georgian, I guess.

Washington-based journalist Jeff A. Taylor (jtaylor@reason.com) writes Reason magazine's weekly free e-mail newsletter, Reason Express.