How, in the name of logic, can you defend rewarding President Saakashvili's calamitous failure of imagination with American tax dollars?

His ordering the invasion of South Ossetia was a colossal blunder on an order of magnitude which is mind-boggling, particularly for his inability to grasp that Russia would respond ferociously.

Also, one has to wonder just what kind of "aid" Biden is talking about providing at that price tag.

Could some of it possibly be "military assistance", further provoking Russia??