Some 10, 000 Georgians today took to the streets of Tblisi to denounce their rambunctious President Mikhail Saakashvili. If these people recognize that their own country provoked an unnecessary and humiliating conflict with Russia, then why can’t America’s political establishment?

The protesters are brave: Saakashvili, who of course gets on splendidly with soon-to-be-VP Joe Biden, is increasingly acting like a paranoid, deluded autocrat. He recently dismissed his army chief after concluding that Georgia’s military forces had shown themselves to be weak.